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Re: 'split' Appending Too Many Characters


On 12/30/2010 12:24 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 12/30/2010 11:13 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
I have a script I've run successfully for years on a Win XP system.

I just did a clean install of the whole OS and Cygwin from scratch.

The script makes use of the 'split' utility using a command
along the lines of:

tar -czvfT file - | /usr/bin/split -b 10000 - foo.bar

It formerly produced files in the form foo.bar.xa, foo.bar.xb, and so
forth.

Now it produces files in the form: foo.bar.xaaaaaaa...

Known upstream bug in coreutils 8.8: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-12/msg00109.html

and will be fixed soon (either by upstream coreutils 8.9, or by
back-porting that patch into cygwin coreutils-8.8-2).


Ideas?

Adding '-a2' may serve as a decent workaround in the meantime.



Thanks.


The program, however, will not accept -a3, it requires the numeric arg
to be 3 or larger for some inexplicable reason...

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