I also think that this last -s read may be causing some trouble. Do NOT ignore a memory error.

reading in 1GB chunks is probably ok on your machine although there is no performance help for reading more than 64Kbytes at a time.

Simplify you code so that all is handled in one case, perhaps like below pseudo code.

Just keep asking for the same size chunk each time, if the file has less than that size, you will only get what is left. There is no need for a special case to handle the last chunk. If you want to test for undef vs 0 bytes case, do that after the while() loop. 

foreach (@file)
{
    open input file  or die...

    my $part=1;
    
    my $sizeRead;
    
    while ($sizeRead = read $in_fh, $buffer, $chunk;)
    {
       open out file for the current part number
       increment part number for next time if there is such
       write the data...using $sizeRead (what was actually
       read)
    }
    
    if $sizeRead is undef, last read didn't "work".   
}

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In reply to Re: Chunking very large files by Marshall
in thread Chunking very large files by hiptoss

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