Today at 8:15am, Hans Fugal said: >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.
split may not do a many-way split in one run, but it can do it when called multiple times. Just when the next file is too big for the remaining space, split it into two parts, one of which fits the remaining space. Then for the next CD if the remaining file is too big, split it into two parts, one of which fits the remaining space. Repeat as many times as needed, and eventually you'll have a remainder that fits on one CD. Mac -- Mac Newbold MNE - Mac Newbold Enterprises, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.macnewbold.com/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
