[4196] in Athena Bugs
vax 6.4R: split
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Mon Feb 12 12:55:55 1990
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 12:55:37 -0500
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System name: lycus
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 6.4R
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
split a file into 40-line pieces:
[{1}lycus:/tmp]
% split -40 /aeneas/ftp/pub/kerberos/src.split/ksrc.02.shar
[{1}lycus:/tmp]
% wc -l x??
1278 xaa
980 xab
2258 total
What's wrong:
split's behavior doesn't match its documentation.
What should have happened:
It should have put it into pieces with 40 lines each. It didn't.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
split(1):
DESCRIPTION
Split reads file and writes it in n-line pieces or n*10
character pieces (if the file is not a text file), as many
as necessary, onto a set of output files. n defaults to
1000. The name of the first output file is name with aa
