Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:40:06 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BSD Tar Question Message-ID: <46B01CB6.6090502@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070801092923.H23854@scrat.home.rakhesh.com> References: <46B006E2.3070501@chrismaness.com> <20070801092923.H23854@scrat.home.rakhesh.com>
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Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Chris Maness wrote:
>
>> Does BSD tar implementation support splitting the archives? I have a
>> 8G file that I want to burn on DVDs. I used to be able to do this
>> with the linux GNU tar.
>
> I don't think so (atleast its not there in the manpages). Maybe you
> can use the GNU version of tar from "archivers/gtar"?
>
> Regards,
> Rakhesh
Why not use tar -c[j|z]vf - | split ? See split(1) for more info.
-Garrett
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