Coreutils version: 8.23-3ubuntu1 Operating system: Ubuntu 15.04 Split with numeric suffixes adds extra digits in the suffix from 90+ and begins counting again from the 9000s. All 90s after the first have no jumps. Example: split -b 2048 -d testfile.bin splitfile. With a large enough test file (721KB) the resultant files: splitfile.00, splitfile01, splitfile.02 ... splitfile.89, splitfile.9000, splitfile.9001, splitfile.9002 ... splitfile.9262, etc.