[Gllug] Split

tet at accucard.com tet at accucard.com
Fri Sep 21 15:47:02 UTC 2001


>I believe re-catting split files together will probably work, but I am not
>sure about splitting.  The unix version of split we use (and I PRESUME Linux
>versions) split by line count, which means the source file has to be a line
>sequential file in the first place.   So a gzipped file may not split into
>the chunks you require.

Yes, it works fine. If you want to split it via byte count, rather than
by line count, use split -b instead.

Tet

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