Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:22:19 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BSD Tar Question Message-ID: <46B034AB.3010708@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070801101111.V31348@scrat.home.rakhesh.com> References: <46B006E2.3070501@chrismaness.com> <20070801092923.H23854@scrat.home.rakhesh.com> <46B01CB1.8020809@u.washington.edu> <20070801101111.V31348@scrat.home.rakhesh.com>
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Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Chris Maness wrote: >>> >>>> Does BSD tar implementation support splitting the archives? I have >>>> a 8G file that I want to burn on DVDs. I used to be able to do >>>> this with the linux GNU tar. >>> >>> I don't think so (atleast its not there in the manpages). Maybe you >>> can use the GNU version of tar from "archivers/gtar"? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Rakhesh >> >> Why not use tar -c[j|z]vf - | split ? See split(1) for more info. >> -Garrett > > Silly me! I did check the split(1) manpage before posting that, you > know. But I guess I didn't read carefully, coz somehow I got the > impression it doesn't work on binary files. I checked again now -- > you're right. split(1) should do ... > > Thanks, > Rakhesh No prob :). -Garrett
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