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Possible bug on split ?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Ulf Zibis <Ulf.Zibis <at> gmx.de>

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:05:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ulf Zibis <Ulf.Zibis <at> gmx.de>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Possible bug on split ?
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:19:54 +0200

 With split --help I get the information on units like K, KB, M, MB etc.

As split 123m and split 123MB work fine, but split 123mb doesn't, it seems, that the unit 
identifiers only partly work for lower-case letters.

IMO this is a bug, or should be documented more explicit.

What you think?

-Ulf
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