Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:36:40 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: usage of split Message-ID: <20050620033640.GD8497@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200506192231.18309.algould@datawok.com> References: <200506192231.18309.algould@datawok.com>
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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
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