Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:49:16 -0600 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: split bug? Message-ID: <20010311234915.A78116@northernbrewer.com>
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I've been trying to split a large binary file using split(1). Are there any caveats pertaining to the use of split with binary files? I searched around, but could only find encouraging information... Anyway, here's my problem specifically: I've got a large gzipped file, and I split it like so: # split -b 660m myfile.gz The four resulting files (xaa, xab, xac, xad) cannot be reassembled to create the original gzipped file. # cat xaa xab xac xad | diff seward-dump.gz - Binary files seward-dump.gz and - differ Is this a bug, or user error? :) -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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