'split' Appending Too Many Characters

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 12/30/2010 12:28 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> 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...


I meant it will not accept '-a2' ...


>


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