Incidentally, I am pondering writing a simple but apparently unavailable script to do the following:
Given a set of files, burn them to as many CDs as is necessary. If some files are bigger than 650M, split them up. The details are of course quite more involved, but that's the gist. If anyone knows of something that does this already, please tell me. I pondered using split for splitting the files, but it occurs to me I perhaps would like to have one file fill the remaining space on one cd, say 200M, span another cd, 650M, and end on the third cd, say 50M. split can't do that, so I'll probably end up using dd. As an example, given: 200M foo 250M bar 900M baz CD 1: 200M foo 250M bar 200M baz.aa CD 2: 650M baz.ab CD 3: 50M baz.ac Then you would access foo and bar normally, and to restore baz you'd do something like: insert cd1, cat /cdrom/baz.aa > baz, insert cd2 cat /cdrom/baz.ab >> baz, insert cd3, cat /cdrom/baz.ac >> baz /* Quoth Richard Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 4 Feb 2004 at 21:06 -0700 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */ > Anyone know a no-frills (CLI?) way to split a file in two? I want to > split a large and then burn each part to a CD. > > Thanks, > > Richard > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460 ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
