How to set starting index in split command in linux ?
Since you said Linux that means split comes from GNU coreutils. If you look at the source for split the code handling the -d / --numeric-suffixes option is setup to take an optional argument but the call to getopt_long does not enable one. Perhaps due to compatibility reasons? You should mail them and ask.
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/split.c;hb=HEAD
@@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) int this_optind = optind ? optind : 1; char *slash;- c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "0123456789C:a:b:del:n:u",+ c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "0123456789C:a:b:d:el:n:u", longopts, NULL); if (c == -1) break;This patch enables the optional number argument to be handled. Then you can invoke split as:
split -d 1 foo foo.split.And the numbers start from 1, not 0.
You can get the source from http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ and apply this change yourself and use it locally if you like.