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Re: 'split' Appending Too Many Characters


On 12/30/2010 12:13 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
I have a script I've run successfully for years on a Win XP system.

I just did a clean install of the whole OS and Cygwin from scratch.

The script makes use of the 'split' utility using a command
along the lines of:

tar -czvfT file - | /usr/bin/split -b 10000 - foo.bar

It formerly produced files in the form foo.bar.xa, foo.bar.xb, and so forth.

Now it produces files in the form: foo.bar.xaaaaaaa...

IOW, split appears to be appending extraneous characters onto the end of the
line.

Other facts noted:

1) The number of characters appended seems to vary depending on
some magic having to do with either the left side of the | or
the name of the destination file.

2) 'split' seems to behave if run directly on the command line rather
than being the destination of a pipe.

Ideas?

Clarification:


This works as expected:

cat /setup.exe | /usr/bin/split -b 10000 -

This does not:

cat /setup.exe | /usr/bin/split -b 10000 - foo.bar

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