Creating a spanning archive with tar

Phyrexicaid · 01-27-2005, 12:37 PM

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

Matir · 01-27-2005, 01:51 PM

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

Phyrexicaid · 01-27-2005, 02:02 PM

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

Matir · 01-27-2005, 04:53 PM

Try

Code:

cat file1 file2 > allfiles

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.

rnturn · 01-27-2005, 09:04 PM

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.