François Pinard wrote:
> Hi, Jim.
>
> I was looking for a problematic spot from a big file, and to isolate it,
> used "split" repeatedly as a way to zoom into the proper place. Just to
> try, I used "split -C 100000 xad" at one place (after saving "xad"
> first, of course). "split" interrupted itself, producing less output
> than input.
>
> My suggestion would be that split moans in some way before it destroys
> its own input. :-)
>
> François
Hi François!
Thank you for reporting that.
That's definitely a bug.
For the record, here's a quick reproducer:
$ seq 10 > xaa
$ split -C 6 xaa
$ wc -c x??
6 xaa
1 xab
7 total
$ head x??
==> xaa <==
1
2
3
==> xab <==
3$
I've Cc'd the bug list, in case someone would like to write
the patch (fix, NEWS and test) before I get to it.
I may not have time tomorrow.
