adding 'split' to the livecd

I got the following 'forwarded' mail from Patrick:

> Just wondering if there was any chance of including
> the "split" command in
> your cd so it can be used in making system backups,
> as I use the commands
> "split" and "cat" as follows:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=512 | gzip -c | split -b 100m -
> backups.img.gz.&
>
> to create quick partition images of operating
> systems, (in 100mb lumps)
>
> and then:
>
> cat backups.img.gz.* | gzip -dc | dd of=/dev/hda1&
>
> to restore them again.
>
> All the best, hope you didn't mind me sending this
> little request, I assume it
> would not add noticeably to the size of the finished
> cd??

Well, i don't think many people will use this, but since it adds only a few KiB i don't mind to add it to the cd.