Hello,

# Jan Schaumann 2007-05-28:
> I've had the need to split a file into N chunks.  Now I could do the
> math myself by looking at the file size and the specifying "-b" with the
> appropriate number, but I figured it might be useful to let split(1) do
> this for me.
> 
> The attached diff adds the "-n chunk_count" flag to split(1).

Looks useful to me.

> @@ -258,6 +271,26 @@
>  }
>  
>  /*
> + * split3 --
> + *	Split the input into specified number of chunks
> + */
> +static void
> +split3(off_t chunks)
> +{
> +	struct stat sb;
> +	off_t bcnt;
> +
> +	if (fstat(ifd, &sb) == -1) {
> +		err(1, "stat");
> +		/* NOTREACHED */
> +	}
> +
> +	bcnt = sb.st_size/chunks;
> +	bcnt += sb.st_size%chunks;
> +	split1(bcnt);
> +}

Considering

  st_size = 100
  chunks = 6

yields

  bcnt = 100/6 = 16
  bcnt = 16 + 100%6 = 16 + 4 = 20

thus five files would be created -- not what the user asked for.

	-- Jachym