On Sunday 19 June 2005 22:31, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > 1. Can the split utility be used on binary files?
Yes. > 2. How does one rejoin the resulting split files to recreate the > original file? I assume you can cat text files into a new file using > redirection (>>); but can you do that with a binary file? Yes. From the first line of the cat(1) man page: "cat - concatenate files". There you have it - "cat" is short for "concatenate". It's the opposite of "split". If you want to prove it to yourself, try using cmp or md5 to compare before and after versions of split-and-rejoined files. -- Kirk Strauser
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