[plug] Does anyone know of a utility to break up large files into smaller

Luigi Cantoni lui at stm0001.dialix.oz.au
Tue Feb 23 16:05:50 WST 1999


> Hi all,
> I was wondering if anyone knew of a utility that will take a given
> (large) file - such as a tar file or similar, and break it up into
> equally sized chunks - and of course, append it back together again?
> Also: Is there a PLUG Meeting on tonight?
> cheers
> David Buddrige... 8-)
split/csplit cuts it apart.
cat puts it back together.
Read the man pages on how to use them.
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Thanks Luigi
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