Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 16:16:31 -0500 From: Jim Arnold <jim@ohio.com> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splitting a tar archive Message-ID: <a05100313b808ba9bc433@[206.128.102.10]> In-Reply-To: <20011102204953.D6967@raggedclown.net> References: <3.0.5.32.20011102113219.00f94888@mail.sage-american.com> <20011101160655.O92340-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> <20011101222033.C53366-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> <3.0.5.32.20011102113219.00f94888@mail.sage-american.com> <3.0.5.32.20011102124221.00f94888@mail.sage-american.com> <a05100310b808b104839b@[206.128.102.10]> <20011102204953.D6967@raggedclown.net>
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At 8:49 PM +0100 11/2/01, Cliff Sarginson wrote: >On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:24:09PM -0500, Jim Arnold wrote: >> ok, now that I have a directory full of files like >> >> xkw xwh yhs ytd zeo >> xkx xwi yht yte zep >> xky xwj yhu ytf zeq >> xkz >> >> how do i go about getting them back into the >> original file. >> >> cat ./* > file doesn't seem to work >> >What do you mean it doesn't work !? >What happens then..? The file size that gets created when I cat the files is smaller than the original file. Here's what I did to test this out: 1. Here is the original file and size: -rw-r--r-- 1 jim jim 148281148 Nov 2 15:07 bogey_full.mov 2. The above file was copied into its own directory, than I ran this command: split bogey_full.mov 3. After split is finished I killed out the original file: bash-2.05$ rm bogey_full.mov 4. Next I run this command: bash-2.05$ cat ./* > bogey_full.mov 5. When I check the file after the cat command runs I see that the reconstituted file is *much* small, plus it no longer works... bash-2.05$ ls -l bogey_full.mov -rw-r--r-- 1 jim jim 41399664 Nov 2 15:10 bogey_full.mov -- ___________________________________________________________ Jim Arnold <jarnold@knightridder.com> Voice: 330.253.9524 x 9-12 Ohio.com Site Administrator Fax: 330.253.8214 http://www.ohio.com Cell: 330.730.0797 AOL IM: instantjim 12 E. Exchange Street - 2nd Fl -- Akron, OH 44308 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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