Re: bzip2split
% Obviously, 'split' won't work for 2 reasons: % Each chunk won't have the BZIP2 header what a problem? when unpacking you do cat allfiles|bunzip2 % 'split' will cut the file inside a bzip2 block, rendering the first/last blocks of each file unreadable. -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
bzip2split
Can I split a large (4G+) bzip2 file into smaller bzip2 files? Notes: % Obviously, 'split' won't work for 2 reasons: % Each chunk won't have the BZIP2 header % 'split' will cut the file inside a bzip2 block, rendering the first/last blocks of each file unreadable. -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bzip2split
In response to Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com: Can I split a large (4G+) bzip2 file into smaller bzip2 files? Notes: % Obviously, 'split' won't work for 2 reasons: % Each chunk won't have the BZIP2 header % 'split' will cut the file inside a bzip2 block, rendering the first/last blocks of each file unreadable. You can split it. You'll just have to rejoin it before you can uncompress it. Clever use of cat and pipes will do that without intermediate files. You could also split the file prior compression. Then you could uncompress each part separately, _then_ rejoin the parts. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bzip2split
In the last episode (Dec 21), Kelly Jones said: Can I split a large (4G+) bzip2 file into smaller bzip2 files? Notes: % Obviously, 'split' won't work for 2 reasons: % Each chunk won't have the BZIP2 header % 'split' will cut the file inside a bzip2 block, rendering the first/last blocks of each file unreadable. The bzip2recover command will split each block of data in a bzip2 file into separate .bz2 files; you can then cat them back together to create runs of files however big you want. Even though the resulting files have bzip2 headers between blocks, bunzip2 will skip over them when extracting. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
