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Re: split refuses to split files when size is 4500m


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: split refuses to split files when size is 4500m
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 08:25:32 +0200

Gregor Jackie <address@hidden> wrote:
> jackie:/home/backups/EV1# split -b 4500m ev1.cpio.bz2
> split: 4500m: invalid number of bytes
> Try `split --help' for more information.
> jackie:/home/backups/EV1# ls -lh ev1.cpio.bz2
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     staff        7.8G Jun 11 07:46 ev1.cpio.bz2

Thank you for the report.
That's fixed for the next test release.
Here's a patch:

  http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-04/msg00044.html

Or look at the diffs in CVS.
It's revision 1.84 here:

  http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/coreutils/coreutils/src/split.c




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