From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 17:06:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA22926 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:06:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA22877 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:06:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA19512; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 09:35:51 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 09:35:51 +0930 (CST) From: Peter Childs Message-Id: <199609250005.JAA19512@al.imforei.apana.org.au> To: hmmm@alaska.net (hmmm), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spanning X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article you wrote: : is there a simple method to span floppies (like pkzip &) : when cp-ing and/or tarballing? : sometimes i need to transfer >1.4M files from BSDbox to BSDbox ... Straight from the FAQ... 6.25. How did you split the distribution up into 240k files? Newer BSD based systems have a ``-b'' option to split that allows them to split files on arbitrary byte boundaries. Here is an example from /usr/src/Makefile. bin-tarball: (cd ${DISTDIR}; \ tar cf - . \ gzip --no-name -9 -c | \ split -b 240640 - \ ${RELEASEDIR}/tarballs/bindist/bin_tgz.) -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!