diff --git a/indexCorpus.sh b/indexCorpus.sh
index faa1aa5..4540b12 100755
--- a/indexCorpus.sh
+++ b/indexCorpus.sh
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 			then
 			echo "Split file & Sending to Index"
 			mkdir -p $outCurlFolder"/"$corpusName"/split"
-			split --lines=$chunksMaxLines $outCurlFolder"/"$corpusName"/"$filePatternReadyForCurl $outCurlFolder"/"$corpusName"/split/split"
+			split -l $chunksMaxLines $outCurlFolder"/"$corpusName"/"$filePatternReadyForCurl $outCurlFolder"/"$corpusName"/split/split"
 			for chunk in `ls $outCurlFolder"/"$corpusName"/split/"`
 				do echo "indexing "$chunk
 				curl -k --noproxy '*' -XPOST $ELASTIC_URL":"$ELASTIC_PORT"/analyse-"$corpusName"/_bulk?pretty" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-binary "@"$outCurlFolder"/"$corpusName"/"$chunk > /dev/null 2>&1