Re: Tool to uncat file

2009-02-01 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
$ man split This (split) is the standard unix utility to break a file up into pieces. It breaks it down either by a fixed number of lines or by a fixed number of bytes. Also the rules for dividing lines is simplistic: simple newline division, no special escape handling. If that doesn't

Re: Tool to uncat file

2009-02-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
Polytropon wrote: Dear list, before starting to code on my own, I'd like to ask if there's already a tool to uncat files, defining the file separation position as a string of bytes, usually given in hexadecimal form. An example could be this: % uncat -p 0x12,0x52,0xf1,0x09 file_orig

Re: Tool to uncat file

2009-02-01 Thread perryh
before starting to code on my own, I'd like to ask if there's already a tool to uncat files, defining the file separation position as a string of bytes, usually given in hexadecimal form. An example could be this: % uncat -p 0x12,0x52,0xf1,0x09 file_orig It creates file_1

Re: Tool to uncat file

2009-02-01 Thread Eitan Adler
Polytropon wrote: Dear list, before starting to code on my own, I'd like to ask if there's already a tool to uncat files, defining the file separation position as a string of bytes, usually given in hexadecimal form. Is there such a tool, or any other ideas? If I understand correctly