Patrik Marxer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I think this may be a simple command, but I havent found it so > far. I want to backup the vmware files on cdr so I need to cut them > into pieces that I can burn on cd and later put those together into > the original files again. > > What is the program/command to cut files and put them together?
I think you are looking for split. man split will give you all the gory details, but basically all you need to do is: split --verbose -b 650m name_of_file_to_split you do not need the `--verbose' if you don't want it. the `-b 650m' tells split to divide the file into 650 meg files (as many as it takes), and you can change the number to whatever you want. `m' stands for megabytes. by default, the output goes to files named xaa, xab, xac, ... > Btw. is there a program that does something like backup a big chunk > (home dir, hda) and automatically cuts it into pieces that fit on cd > and can later restore the original in a place that I specify? sorry, cannot help here. One was to unsplit files is to use `cat'. cat file1 file2 >> new_big_file or cat file2 >> file1 -- Chris Spackman Thu Oct 3 21:00:47 JST 2002 ******** random quote ******** One day a student came to Moon and said, "I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons." Moon patiently told the student the following story -- "One day a student came to Moon and said, "I understand how to make a better garbage collector..."
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