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| -rw-r--r-- | src/split.c | 6 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | tests/split/filter | 3 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/split.c b/src/split.c index 5e203f1b7..9e23f8689 100644 --- a/src/split.c +++ b/src/split.c @@ -1175,6 +1175,12 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) } } + if (k_units != 0 && filter_command) + { + error (0, 0, _("--filter does not process a chunk extracted to stdout")); + usage (EXIT_FAILURE); + } + /* Handle default case. */ if (split_type == type_undef) { diff --git a/tests/split/filter b/tests/split/filter index a42c5539e..5bc54581f 100755 --- a/tests/split/filter +++ b/tests/split/filter @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ done split -e -n 10 --filter='xz > $FILE.xz' /dev/null || fail=1 stat x?? 2>/dev/null && fail=1 +# Ensure this invalid combination is flagged +split -n 1/2 --filter='true' /dev/null 2>/dev/null && fail=1 + # Ensure SIGPIPEs sent by the children don't propagate back # where they would result in a non zero exit from split. yes | head -n200K | split -b1G --filter='head -c1 >/dev/null' || fail=1 |