Hi, The split command does not accept anymore suffix with a length of 2 while it was the default and still written as being so in the man page.
Version-Release number of selected component : coreutils_8.8-2.mga1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: split -a 2 -b 10K /usr/bin/split split_ split: the suffix length needs to be at least 3 split -b 10K /usr/bin/split split_ This will create : -rw-r--r-- 1 eric users 10240 déc. 3 20:12 split_aaa -rw-r--r-- 1 eric users 10240 déc. 3 20:12 split_aab -rw-r--r-- 1 eric users 10240 déc. 3 20:12 split_aac -rw-r--r-- 1 eric users 10240 déc. 3 20:12 split_aad -rw-r--r-- 1 eric users 10240 déc. 3 20:12 split_aae -rw-r--r-- 1 eric users 7880 déc. 3 20:12 split_aaf instead of : split_aa ... split_af Take a 345Mb file : -rw-r--r-- 1 eric users 344707084 déc. 3 17:42 Softs.tar.bz2.gpg split -b 240M Softs.tar.bz2.gpg Softs.tar.bz2.gpg_ This will create : -rw-r--r-- 1 eric users 251658240 déc. 3 17:45 Softs.tar.bz2.gpg_aaaaaa -rw-r--r-- 1 eric users 93048844 déc. 3 17:46 Softs.tar.bz2.gpg_aaaaab Instead of Softs.tar.bz2.gpg_aa and Softs.tar.bz2.gpg_ab Regards. Xuo.