From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 13 16:12: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F9A237B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:12:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from catflap.home.slightlystrange.org (pc1-cmbg1-4-cust43.cam.cable.ntl.com [62.253.133.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD35143EA9 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:12:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.home.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 180rtt-000DfW-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:11:57 +0100 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:11:57 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do I ftp a large file ? Message-ID: <20021013231156.GA52483@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan *180rtt-000DfW-00*UyE7kw6HK7A* (SlightlyStrange.org, Using NOD32 http://www.nod32.com) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 02:15:23AM -0700, Firsto Lasto wrote: > I have a 2gig file and a 6gig file on a linux system, and I am trying to > move them to a freebsd machine. > > I have tried both scp and ftp and in both cases I get: > > "File too large" > > So, how should I transfer large files between unix systems ? This sounds like a job for split(1)... Dunno if your Linux distro offers a split command, but if so use that to break the file into little pieces, transfer them to the other host then use cat(1) to join the bits together again. HTH Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message