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 ### Splitting a Bag
 
     $ bag splitbagbysize <BAG> --maxbagsize 30
-    $ python bag-split.py split <BAG>
+    $ python bag-split.py splitcheck <BAG>
 
 The first command above uses the official BagIt command-line utility
 (`bag`) to split the original <BAG>, in this example using 30GB as the