Alexey Eremenko wrote: > Hi all ! > > I came across a problem: splitting files. > > How to best approach this problem ? > > I have used "split" command: > Like that, to split 1 ISO file into many 1 MB files. > split -d -b $[1000*1000] --verbose ../visopsys-0.62.iso > > But I came across a problem, how-to merge them back? > > I did something *very* ugly: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/F/OSes/test> cp x00 finalfile.iso > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/F/OSes/test> cat x01 >> finalfile.iso > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/F/OSes/test> cat x02 >> finalfile.iso > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/F/OSes/test> cat x03 >> finalfile.iso > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/F/OSes/test> cat x04 >> finalfile.iso > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/F/OSes/test> cat x05 >> finalfile.iso > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/F/OSes/test> cat x06 >> finalfile.iso > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/F/OSes/test> cat x07 >> finalfile.iso > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/F/OSes/test> cat x08 >> finalfile.iso > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/F/OSes/test> cat x09 >> finalfile.iso > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/F/OSes/test> cat x10 >> finalfile.iso > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/F/OSes/test> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/F/OSes/test> md5sum ../visopsys-0.62.iso > f76eea3e3bbb441570984a7f6fb8d646 ../visopsys-0.62.iso > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/F/OSes/test> md5sum finalfile.iso > f76eea3e3bbb441570984a7f6fb8d646 finalfile.iso > > Is there any beautyful command, that is "anti-split" ? > I have tried "join", but this command is very bad: it can only join up > to 2 files. > > I have heard about the possibility of multi-volume TAR archives, but I > could not find the right keys in the tar info pages. > > Please help me finding the convenient commands to split/join files > > One thing you could have tried is cat x00 x01 x02...x10 > finalfile.iso.
Perhaps using a wild card would work: cat x?? > finalfile.iso or cat x* > finalfile.iso -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
