From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jan 19 08:20:53 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8A9ECA3C4 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:20:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from bca5.email-od.com (bca5.email-od.com [207.246.239.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 59CF677AAA for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:20:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1516350056; x=1518942056; h=x-thread-info:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qO/d4VkS63IxTCAPm5SM+dY/6jxs7IRCWnt8QFj2Ywg=; b=wQBawmxSnPnaxRhNZKy+ln40s+N0cYCDyY8mMbjxkORafOQIaEDWLvfpbFKZ53VRDAXSq7IAOS18UJZZfhcFkYbki3Vud6QITlELGFdjLIaK59+fzTRWThrusRBM2CNXDMbDWI0meE1Khl1+k2PQeCEf4uZjK/pl1src6esV+d4= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi44ODAwMDAwMDBmYjU5My5mcmVlYnNkLXF1ZXN0aW9ucz1mcmVlYnNkLm9yZw== Received: from r5.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r5.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com [52.204.195.176]) by bca2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Fri, 19 Jan 2018 03:20:46 -0500 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r5.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Fri, 19 Jan 2018 03:20:43 -0500 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.90 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ecRuj-0006Fl-AX for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:20:41 +0000 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:20:41 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Splitting up sets of files for archiving (e.g. to tape, optical media) Message-Id: <20180119082041.d1a91523ddc599dbd75b0b2c@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <68377.1516327618@segfault.tristatelogic.com> References: <68377.1516327618@segfault.tristatelogic.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.6.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:20:53 -0000 On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:06:58 -0800 "Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote: > I have written a small software tool to do the above "splitting" job, > and I am currently improving upon it, but it occured to me that I > should at least ask if someone else has perhaps already perfected this > exact wheel that I am busy re-inventing. I have re-invented that wheel a couple of times (in very different contexts but with the same simple algorithm), but I've never seen a packaged tool for the job. Perhaps you should release yours, mine were never more than just enough for the job in hand. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith