file splitter and merger??

Lux Zhang yuanlux at gmail.com
Thu Nov 29 10:49:19 UTC 2007


On Nov 29, 2007 4:02 PM, Jeff Krebs <jkrebs at tconl.com> wrote:
> * Frank Cox (theatre at sasktel.net) wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:19:23 -0600
> > Jeff Krebs <jkrebs at tconl.com> wrote:
> >
> > > perhaps it was mentioned already, but "rar" (from FreshRPMs) compresses
> > > AND splits files into multiple parts.
> >
> > I thought rar was a commercial "send in the cash" program, and only unrar (the
> > de-compressor) was provided free of charge.
> >
> > Has that changed?
> >
>
> The linux version is shareware according the the license. I think
> the DOS/CLI Windows version is as well. 40 day trial.
>
> I'll see where I'm at on my 40 days...
>
> Here's a link to split files using "tar"; originally used for backing to
> multiple tapes:
>
> http://www.nuxified.org/blog/splitting_large_files_or_directories_into_small_tar_files
>

use tar is the best method I am looking for. The tape-length option on
F7 is different from that site.

-L, --tape-length=NUMBER   change tape after writing NUMBER x 1024 bytes


> Jeff Krebs
>
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