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Re: problem with split
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: problem with split |
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Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:37:45 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
John Joseph Bachir <address@hidden> writes:
> split -b4700m myFile.tar.gz myFile.tar.gz_ ;
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> Which should be about DVD sized chunks. But the files come out a
> little over 600 megs each.
Perhaps you're running an old version of split? "split --version"
should tell you. If it's before version 5.0.1 you need to upgrade, to
fix that bug. The current version is 5.93.
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.93.tar.gz