On 2005-06-19 22:37, "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sunday 19 June 2005 10:34 pm, Olivier Nicole wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> I'd say yes, you can cat a binary file (though it is likely to
>> mess-up your screen).
>
> That's what virtual terminals are for! ;-)
> What's a better way of rejoining split parts of a binary file?
If you split a binary file using split(1), then just rejoin the parts
with cat(1):
% split -b 1400000 largefile.bin
% cat x[a-z][a-z] > largefile2.bin
After these two steps, you should have:
largefile.bin The original binary file.
xaa, xab, ... Chunks of the original file that can fit
in 1.4MB floppies (does anyone use these
anymore?)
largefile2.bin A second copy of the original file, that
was created by joining the x[a-z][a-z]
chunks that split(1) created
After writing this post, I realized that split(1) doesn't have an
EXAMPLES section. I think we should add one :)
- Giorgos
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