On 12/30/2010 11:13 AM, 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...
Known upstream bug in coreutils 8.8: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-12/msg00109.html and will be fixed soon (either by upstream coreutils 8.9, or by back-porting that patch into cygwin coreutils-8.8-2). > > Ideas? Adding '-a2' may serve as a decent workaround in the meantime. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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