Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:44:18 -0400 (EDT) From: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca To: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" <jeff@stat.uconn.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Archiving Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960424183910.5425B-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <9604242020.AA20068@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu>
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On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a program available on FreeBSD that can
> split a large binary file into smaller pieces which can be reassembled
> at a later date. My only backup storage media right now are 1.44MB
> floppies and I have a tar-gzipped file that cannot be repacked into
> smaller pieces to fit on a floppy.
>From the FAQ at www.freebsd.org
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7.26. How do I split up large binary files into smaller 240k files like the
distribution does?
Newer BSD based systems have a ``-b'' option to split that allows them
to split files on arbitrary byte boundaries.
Here is an example from /usr/src/Makefile.
bin-tarball:
(cd ${DISTDIR}; \
tar cf - . \
gzip --no-name -9 -c | \
split -b 240640 - \
${RELEASEDIR}/tarballs/bindist/bin_tgz.)
Primarily, have a look at `man split'. To reassamble the files into one
piece, you can simply
cat splitfiles* >> togetherfile
I think gzip might even accept splitfiles*.
--
Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never!
tIM...HOEk
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