Re: Linux "split" Utility

[Jim Meyering]

Marvin Hile <address@hidden> wrote:

> split -b 266748928 BIGfile
> where BIGfile is 5333497856 bytes
> reports that 266748928 is an invalid number of bytes.
...
> split --version
> yields 4.5.3.

Thank you for the report.
That's fixed in the newer releases:

STABLE
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2

BETA
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0.tar.gz
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0.tar.bz2