Re: splitting tar files and zero padding

2007-06-13 Thread Mumia W.
On 06/12/2007 11:09 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: hello, Hello Michael. my goal is to eliminate (or split out) the last file from a tar archive, and i'm having trouble understanding the extra bytes added and zero padding that is done to tar files. let me illustrate what i'm doing. [...] but t

splitting tar files and zero padding

2007-06-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
hello, my goal is to eliminate (or split out) the last file from a tar archive, and i'm having trouble understanding the extra bytes added and zero padding that is done to tar files. let me illustrate what i'm doing. first, i'll create some sample files $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=file1 count=100