Re: [PLUG] Moveing large files

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:49:46PM -0500, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> Does anyone know a cli util to split large files? Can this be answer, make
> the files < 2GB?

split(1), but why? There shouldn't be a 2 GB limit left in any
userland utilities or modern file systems.

> I'm thinking of something like compact pro for mac os. Man was that a nice
> program! A bit cumbersome (I want to type 'segment bigfile' and wind up w/
> bigfile1, bigfile2...).

That's exactly what split(1) does.

But you DON'T need to do this. I transfer ~20 GB files around all
the time. Just use rsh. If you want to transfer a directory, use tar
cpf - <dir> | rsh (cd <todir> && tar xpf - ). Or | rsh dd
of=<outfile> ibs=<input block size> obs=1024k.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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