On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:36:43PM +0800, Manny wrote: > Can anyone recommend a filecoimpressor that can also split the resulting > compressed file into smaller blocks? I have a huge binary compressedfile > that is over 850MB in size, which keep sme from writing it to a standard > CD-RW. I hope to be able to "split" it and write it to 2 CDs. >
try split(1). split -b 650m my.giant.file split.file. This should produce two files: split.file.aa split.file.ab both of which should be less than 650 megs in size and easily burnable to a disc. To reassemble the file later, just do: cat split.file.aa split.file.ab >my.rebuilt.giant.file I've done this for really big files too and it works just fine. You don't need anything other than the GNU Coreutils that any Linux distribution has available by default. You just must have enough free space on your disk to hold the split version of the file along with the original file. -- dido Te capiam, cuniculus sceleste! -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
