Creating a spanning archive with tar
 

The subject is pretty self explanatory, I've downloaded something at work and need to fit it onto a 128 mb flash disk, the file is 130mb... so I need to be able to create a spanning archive with tar. Looked at the wiki and man pages and couldn't see anything (didn't understand maybe?)

Commands would be appreciated!

Dave

Use the "split" utility to uhh.. split the tar file :)

wicked, now that I've broken humpty dumpty how do I put him back together again? And how did you find that command !?! Years of linux is my guess ;)

edit:

okay I tried "cat file1 file2" and it printed to screen, not pretty seeing 130mb. any suggestions

Try Years of linux? Hardly. More like trying to find a way to split strings in the shell without going into a fullblown sed/awk session. :)

Only two files to recombine? You must have missed the fun of splitting a copy of the kernel source tar archive so that it'd fit on 1.44MB floppies. I'm still running across old AOL floppies that have "xaf", "xag", etc. scrawled across the label. :)