Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 15:43:05 -0800 From: "D. Gerasimatos" <dim@mrn1.aaarf.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: "split" question Message-ID: <199601092343.PAA06668@mrn1.aaarf.org>
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Is there something wrong with "split" or is there something wrong with me? :) I'm using the version found in 2.0.5 on a 2.0.5 system and I can't seem to get the "-l" flag working correctly. I'm splitting a 14 megabyte text file into segments that are 11500 lines long apiece (total lines are 162800). I am using: split -l 11500 <inputfile> This seems to work fine on other OSes, namely HP-UX. I am not having problems with the "-b" flag, but I can't get the "-l" flag to work no matter what. "split -l 1000", "split -l 3000", and "split -l1000" (no space between line arg and flag) all fail with the error: split: 3000: illegal line count. where "3000" is the number trailing the "-l" flag. Is this a known bug or does this command not work according to the man pages? I assume the former, since I can get it to work on HP-UX. Help! :) Dimitrios
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