split refuses to split files when size is 4500m

Gregor Jackie <[email protected]> Tue, 8 Jul 2003 14:31:22 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
Organization	lsp
Message-ID	<200307081431.22332@gjs>

jackie:/home/backups/EV1# split -b 4500m ev1.cpio.bz2
split: 4500m: invalid number of bytes
Try `split --help' for more information.
jackie:/home/backups/EV1# ls -lh ev1.cpio.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root     staff        7.8G Jun 11 07:46 ev1.cpio.bz2


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Jackie
Unix system administrator and security advisor