From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 2 12:17:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com (smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com [204.210.192.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E5C837B40B for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 12:17:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com; id PAA08850; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:14:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from unknown(166.108.139.2) by smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com via smap (V4.2) id xma008777; Fri, 2 Nov 01 15:13:49 -0500 Received: from [206.128.102.10] ([206.128.102.10]) by bea-mx.thebeaconjournal.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GM6WYU00.M2G; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:30:30 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jarnold@krcoms1.knightridder.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20011102204953.D6967@raggedclown.net> References: <3.0.5.32.20011102113219.00f94888@mail.sage-american.com> <20011101160655.O92340-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> <20011101222033.C53366-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> <3.0.5.32.20011102113219.00f94888@mail.sage-american.com> <3.0.5.32.20011102124221.00f94888@mail.sage-american.com> <20011102204953.D6967@raggedclown.net> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 16:16:31 -0500 To: Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jim Arnold Subject: Re: Splitting a tar archive Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 8:49 PM +0100 11/2/01, Cliff Sarginson wrote: >On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:24:09PM -0500, Jim Arnold wrote: >> ok, now that I have a directory full of files like >> >> xkw xwh yhs ytd zeo >> xkx xwi yht yte zep >> xky xwj yhu ytf zeq >> xkz >> >> how do i go about getting them back into the >> original file. >> >> cat ./* > file doesn't seem to work >> >What do you mean it doesn't work !? >What happens then..? The file size that gets created when I cat the files is smaller than the original file. Here's what I did to test this out: 1. Here is the original file and size: -rw-r--r-- 1 jim jim 148281148 Nov 2 15:07 bogey_full.mov 2. The above file was copied into its own directory, than I ran this command: split bogey_full.mov 3. After split is finished I killed out the original file: bash-2.05$ rm bogey_full.mov 4. Next I run this command: bash-2.05$ cat ./* > bogey_full.mov 5. When I check the file after the cat command runs I see that the reconstituted file is *much* small, plus it no longer works... bash-2.05$ ls -l bogey_full.mov -rw-r--r-- 1 jim jim 41399664 Nov 2 15:10 bogey_full.mov -- ___________________________________________________________ Jim Arnold Voice: 330.253.9524 x 9-12 Ohio.com Site Administrator Fax: 330.253.8214 http://www.ohio.com Cell: 330.730.0797 AOL IM: instantjim 12 E. Exchange Street - 2nd Fl -- Akron, OH 44308 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message