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To: chris@northernbrewer.com (Christopher Farley),
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Subject: Re: split bug?
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From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
Date: 12 Mar 2001 11:49:28 -0500
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chris@northernbrewer.com (Christopher Farley) writes:

> I've been trying to split a large binary file using split(1). Are there
> any caveats pertaining to the use of split with binary files? I searched
> around, but could only find encouraging information...
> 
> Anyway, here's my problem specifically: I've got a large gzipped file,
> and I split it like so: 
> 
> # split -b 660m myfile.gz
> 
> The four resulting files (xaa, xab, xac, xad) cannot be reassembled
> to create the original gzipped file.
> 
> # cat xaa xab xac xad | diff seward-dump.gz -
> Binary files seward-dump.gz and - differ
> 
> Is this a bug, or user error? :)

I don't know, but I can't reproduce it:

# dd if=/dev/urandom of=foobar bs=1000000 count=2000
# split -b 660m foobar
# cat x*|diff foobar -
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