On 08:10 28 May 2002, Martín Marqués <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Lun 27 May 2002 21:42, daniel wrote: | > say i have a whole bunch of files i wanna tarball weekly (~2gb). i can't | > back that up to a cd, so the first thought is to have tar compress the | > whole lot into 650mb chunks. can this be done so that each chunk is a | > useable fragment? or do i have to reassemble all the pieces in order to | > extract some data from the combined tarball? | | man split | man cat
Looks like you missed his desire that each part works standalone. Split/cat won't do that. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Ed Campbell's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pointers for long trips: 2. Figure out the most money you could possibly spend, and take at least double. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list