[Gllug] Split

[James Bailey]

There is a linux version of rar which will split and compress and large file 
in to predefined smaller sized files.

James


On Friday 21 September 2001 16:42, you wrote:
> Will write re 'splitting' a tar.gz file and then recombining.
>
> 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.
>
> Why not simply try and and see,  and use cmp to compare the reassembled
> file with the original ?
>
> Tim

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