split --number K/N appears to lose data in, with the sum of the sizes of the output files being smaller than the original input file by 131072 bytes.
$ split --version split (GNU coreutils) 8.30 ... $ head -c 1000000 < /dev/urandom > test.dat $ split --number=1/4 test.dat > t1 $ split --number=2/4 test.dat > t2 $ split --number=3/4 test.dat > t3 $ split --number=4/4 test.dat > t4 $ ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 250000 Jan 22 18:36 t1 -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 250000 Jan 22 18:36 t2 -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 250000 Jan 22 18:36 t3 -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 118928 Jan 22 18:36 t4 -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 1000000 Jan 22 18:33 test.dat Surely this should not be the case? Paul
