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Hi,

There is a change in the split command. Now, it uses a prefix with 6 characters.
Ex :
split myBigFile -b 240M myBigFile_
myBigFile_aaaaaa
myBigFile_aaaaab

instead of the previous behavior :
myBigFile_aa
myBigFile_ab

If I try to use 2 characters max :

split myBigFile -a 2 -b 240M myBigFile_
I get :
split: the suffix length needs to be at least 6

man split
...
-a, --suffix-length=N
use suffixes of length N (default 2)
...

How to report this (small) bug ?

Regards.

Xuo.

Why is this a bug?

Also there has been no update to coreutils since Mageia 1 release.