Splitting and Merging files using dd

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Splitting and Merging files using dd

Splitting and Merging files using dd When copying a 15G binary file onto a temporary storage device (to transfer it from a failing machine to a replacement machine), I hit a 4G file size limit and the copy process crapped out. Rather than use split and cat, I decided to play with dd as I didn't trust split and cat to play well with my binary data file. [B][I]*** Always make sure you have the Input (if) and Output (of) files specified correctly!

While nice, this is a somewhat pointless exercise - neither `split` nor `cat` (nor any other program using fopen() or open() and friends) treat their stdin and stdout in any special way, and it's just as safe to use them for "binary" data as it is for "text" data. POSIX OS are not fundamentally broken like MS-DOS and its successors, insofar as they don't differentiate between "text" and "binary" files; it's "binary" all the way, every time.

Hi, this post is old, but I want to thank you anyway. I'm Ikeeki from cubieforums and I need this info to develop an online flasher for armhf based socs devices. Thanks again, info is NEVER useless