Update Mac OSX split for Pieces Larger than 2GB and Greater

Split is a very useful command-line utility for breaking large files into smaller pieces. Unfortunately, the version Apple ships with OSX 10.4 cannot split files into pieces 2GB or larger. Luckily, there is a newer version of split that you can compile and use instead of the Apple-supplied one.

There is a nice article/post over at macosxhints.com describing how to upgrade split. It's really not very hard but I thought I'd write a script so people could upgrade with a minimum of effort.

The short script is shown below. Please note that it is currently hard-coded for version 1.21 of split. You may want to check and see if there is a newer version before running the script.

#!/bin/bash
curl -o split.c "http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/usr.bin/split/split.c?rev=1.21&content-type=text/plain"
perl -p -i -e 's/#include /#include \n#include /' split.c
cc -Os -o split split.c
sudo mv /usr/bin/split /usr/bin/split.apple
sudo cp split /usr/bin/split
sudo chmod ugo-w /usr/bin/split
sudo chmod ugo+rx /usr/bin/split
sudo chown root:wheel /usr/bin/split
echo "Upgrade Complete."