Andrew L. Gould wrote: > Regarding the usage of split to divide files into several parts: > > 1. Can the split utility be used on binary files? > > 2. How does one rejoin the resulting split files to recreate the > original file? I assume you can cat text files into a new file using > redirection (>>); but can you do that with a binary file? > > Thanks, > > Andrew Gould
I had somewhat of the same question. Here's my docs on how it was explained to me: To create a tarball backup and split it up for CD burning. Something like: tar cjf - /dir/to/backup |split -b 650m - bkupname- Note that using a pipe saves s lot of space. This will produce backups in the form of bkupname-aa, bkupname-ab etc. Restoring the backup would be something like: cd /parent/of/backupdir; cat /path/to/bkup/bkupname-* |tar xjf - Note that you need to have all backup files on a disk for this to work properly. This is what I do to archive my system to a CD Rom. It's sorta like what winzip does with diskette spanning. -- Best regards, Chris The man who has no more problems is out of the game. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
