Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:02:15 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Kelly Jones" <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bzip2split Message-ID: <20081221160215.326d9c75.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <26face530812211223m118c8f11rbc16e1a69e01f582@mail.gmail.com> References: <26face530812211223m118c8f11rbc16e1a69e01f582@mail.gmail.com>
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In response to "Kelly Jones" <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com>: > Can I split a large (4G+) bzip2 file into smaller bzip2 files? Notes: > > % Obviously, 'split' won't work for 2 reasons: > > % Each chunk won't have the BZIP2 header > > % 'split' will cut the file inside a bzip2 "block", rendering the > first/last blocks of each file unreadable. You can split it. You'll just have to rejoin it before you can uncompress it. Clever use of cat and pipes will do that without intermediate files. You could also split the file prior compression. Then you could uncompress each part separately, _then_ rejoin the parts. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com
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