From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 03:36:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 738BA16A41C for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 03:36:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27BDD43D48 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 03:36:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j5K3aeFE081979; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:36:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:36:40 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Andrew L. Gould" Message-ID: <20050620033640.GD8497@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200506192231.18309.algould@datawok.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200506192231.18309.algould@datawok.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: usage of split X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 03:36:44 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 19), Andrew L. Gould said: > Regarding the usage of split to divide files into several parts: > > 1. Can the split utility be used on binary files? split -b bytes infile basename. > 2. How does one rejoin the resulting split files to recreate the > original file? I assume you can cat text files into a new file using > redirection (>>); but can you do that with a binary file? cat basename.* > newfile -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com