My apologies. The problem was not csplit but the mysqldump that was failing to create the full output file. Csplit worked perfectly Cheers Murray On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 at 5:35 pm, GNU bug Tracking System < help-debbugs@gnu.org> wrote: > Thank you for filing a new bug report with debbugs.gnu.org. > > This is an automatically generated reply to let you know your message > has been received. > > Your message is being forwarded to the package maintainers and other > interested parties for their attention; they will reply in due course. > > Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): > bug-coreutils@gnu.org > > If you wish to submit further information on this problem, please > send it to 26318@debbugs.gnu.org. > > Please do not send mail to help-debbugs@gnu.org unless you wish > to report a problem with the Bug-tracking system. > > -- > 26318: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26318 > GNU Bug Tracking System > Contact help-debbugs@gnu.org with problems > -- Murray Collingwood Focus Computing Australia ph 07 3175 0575 New Zealand ph 03 928 1699 http://www.focus-computing.com.au