Sorry, I just got your mail, I already sent one with just about the same content. But thank you for the confirmation on "cat" it is therefore right to do it this way. I used cat ... > ... instead of cat ... >> ... but the ">>" somehow looks better for appending files.
Patrik On Thursday 03 October 2002 14:16, Chris Spackman wrote: > 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
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