How did you split the distribution into 240k files?

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13.7. How did you split the distribution into 240k files?

Newer BSD based systems have a ``-b'' option to split that allows them to split files on arbitrary byte boundaries.

Here is an example from /usr/src/Makefile.

        bin-tarball:
        (cd ${DISTDIR}; \
        tar cf - . \
        gzip --no-name -9 -c | \
        split -b 240640 - \
        ${RELEASEDIR}/tarballs/bindist/bin_tgz.)