From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 13:46:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0999916A41C for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:46:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2A2843D48 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:46:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB529220E9D for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:46:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 40831-05 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:46:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from janus.daycos.com (janus.daycos.com [204.26.70.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFE1121D38B for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:46:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Kirk Strauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:46:01 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200506192231.18309.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <200506192231.18309.algould@datawok.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1880282.jvdtGiPlfR"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200506200846.05150.kirk@strauser.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at honeypot.net Subject: Re: OT: usage of split X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:46:12 -0000 --nextPart1880282.jvdtGiPlfR Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 19 June 2005 22:31, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > 1. Can the split utility be used on binary files? Yes. > 2. How does one rejoin the resulting split files to recreate the > original file? I assume you can cat text files into a new file using > redirection (>>); but can you do that with a binary file? Yes. From the first line of the cat(1) man page: "cat - concatenate files"= =2E =20 There you have it - "cat" is short for "concatenate". It's the opposite of= =20 "split". If you want to prove it to yourself, try using cmp or md5 to compare before= =20 and after versions of split-and-rejoined files. =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --nextPart1880282.jvdtGiPlfR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQBCtsid5sRg+Y0CpvERApLHAKCKUG/OCcXw1EPRaioaBhzdOpF7sACfWL9D ft8h9NaP6y46sIDfxHDHYQ0= =LnpT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1880282.jvdtGiPlfR--