Re: bzip2split

2008-12-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
% Obviously, 'split' won't work for 2 reasons: % Each chunk won't have the BZIP2 header what a problem? when unpacking you do cat allfiles|bunzip2 % 'split' will cut the file inside a bzip2 block, rendering the first/last blocks of each file unreadable. -- We're just a Bunch Of

bzip2split

2008-12-21 Thread Kelly Jones
Can I split a large (4G+) bzip2 file into smaller bzip2 files? Notes: % Obviously, 'split' won't work for 2 reasons: % Each chunk won't have the BZIP2 header % 'split' will cut the file inside a bzip2 block, rendering the first/last blocks of each file unreadable. -- We're just a Bunch

Re: bzip2split

2008-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com: Can I split a large (4G+) bzip2 file into smaller bzip2 files? Notes: % Obviously, 'split' won't work for 2 reasons: % Each chunk won't have the BZIP2 header % 'split' will cut the file inside a bzip2 block, rendering the

Re: bzip2split

2008-12-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 21), Kelly Jones said: Can I split a large (4G+) bzip2 file into smaller bzip2 files? Notes: % Obviously, 'split' won't work for 2 reasons: % Each chunk won't have the BZIP2 header % 'split' will cut the file inside a bzip2 block, rendering the first/last