tag 27129 notabug close 27129 stop On 29/05/17 02:18, thomas kaeding wrote: > This has happened twice to me, for two different files, > with the same size. This file is called "20170528". > > -rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 4700176384 May 28 16:00 20170528 > > split -b 47100000 -d 20170528 20170528. > > gives these files: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:16 20170528.00 > ... > -rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.89 > -rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.9000 > ...
> As you can see, the last 10 have extra zeroes in the suffix. > > I have coreutils 8.22. That's done so the files sort easily for subsequent concatenation, as detailed at: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html#split Use -a4 etc. to have a consistent numbering thanks, Pádraig
