Two split suggestions

[George]

I have two suggestions for split:

1) numeric suffix: I noticed that a numeric suffix options was purposed:

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-08/msg00020.html

Perhaps a better way to specify this would be to use -e (extension) options, where for example:

-e n3

would mean to use a 3 digit numeric extension. As well as:

-e c3

would mean to use a 3 digit alpha extension.

The default would be to use the current 2 digit alpha extension.

 

2) stdout output: Provide an option that causes split to output to stdout, so that it can be used in pipe commands.  This feature would be useful so that the complete set of output files would not have to be generated before they can be processed.  This feature becomes more important as the input file becomes very large, because the very large storage requirements could be avoided.  Perhaps an option '-o1' could be used to signify that it's output would be sent to stdout.