From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 2 12:23:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49BD437B403 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 12:23:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from sageone (adsl-64-219-30-182.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.30.182]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA04262; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:23:18 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20011102142333.00faefc0@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 14:23:33 -0600 To: Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: Splitting a tar archive In-Reply-To: <20011102204608.C6967@raggedclown.net> References: <20011102193715.W2484-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> <20011102115516.A59349@grumpy.dyndns.org> <20011102193715.W2484-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 I'm working on a large file to test the use of cat and I suspect that the files must be appended in the proper order and not randomly.... At 08:46 PM 11.2.2001 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: >On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:38:21PM +0100, Nils Holland wrote: >> On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, David Kelly wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 11:32:19AM -0600, jacks@sage-american.com wrote: >> > > Nils: What's the program that puts "split" files back together afterwards...? >> > >> > cat(1) >> >> Oops, this mail just came in right after I sent my reply telling that I >> don't know how to put splitted files together. However, yes, cat indeed >> seems to work, at least a small preliminary test here proved so ;-) > >Tut tut, cat, possibly the most famous program in Unix history. >"cat" is Unix speak for "concatenate". I seem to recall it was >first written in Unix assembler (a simplified assembler for PDP11s) >as well. > >The original incarnation gave no error messages if any of the >input files did not exist, on the grounds that the error >message would taint the output (this was before standard error >was invented). > >-- >Regards >Cliff > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message