Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 14:40:08 -0600 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splitting a tar archive Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20011102144008.00faefc0@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <20011102213212.A8522@raggedclown.net> References: <a05100313b808ba9bc433@[206.128.102.10]> <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> <a05100310b808b104839b@[206.128.102.10]> <20011102204953.D6967@raggedclown.net> <a05100313b808ba9bc433@[206.128.102.10]>
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Here's the split that worked on a 4.8MB file: #split mybigfile splitfile -b 1MB That gives 4 1MB files at exactly the same bytes and balance of bytes in the smaller file.... They need to be reassembled in the proper order.... At 09:32 PM 11.2.2001 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: >On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:16:31PM -0500, Jim Arnold wrote: >> 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 >> -- >> >Try it again, using the "-b" option to specify the number of >bytes to put in each of the split files. > >-- >Regards >Cliff > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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