From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 9 22:52:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA15051 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 22:52:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA15027 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 22:52:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA02012; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:52:19 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA27225; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:52:19 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id HAA05159; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:35:18 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601100635.HAA05159@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: "split" question To: dim@mrn1.aaarf.org (D. Gerasimatos) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:35:18 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601092343.PAA06668@mrn1.aaarf.org> from "D. Gerasimatos" at Jan 9, 96 03:43:05 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As D. Gerasimatos wrote: > > > 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. j@uriah 132% split -l100 foo j@uriah 133% split -l 100 foo j@uriah 134% split -l 1000 foo j@uriah 135% split -l 3000 foo j@uriah 136% split -l 3000000 foo It works for me as expected!? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)