Date: 12 Mar 2001 11:49:28 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: chris@northernbrewer.com (Christopher Farley), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: split bug? Message-ID: <448zmbhqzr.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: chris@northernbrewer.com's message of "12 Mar 2001 06:49:38 %2B0100" References: <20010311234915.A78116@northernbrewer.com>
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chris@northernbrewer.com (Christopher Farley) writes: > I've been trying to split a large binary file using split(1). Are there > any caveats pertaining to the use of split with binary files? I searched > around, but could only find encouraging information... > > Anyway, here's my problem specifically: I've got a large gzipped file, > and I split it like so: > > # split -b 660m myfile.gz > > The four resulting files (xaa, xab, xac, xad) cannot be reassembled > to create the original gzipped file. > > # cat xaa xab xac xad | diff seward-dump.gz - > Binary files seward-dump.gz and - differ > > Is this a bug, or user error? :) I don't know, but I can't reproduce it: # dd if=/dev/urandom of=foobar bs=1000000 count=2000 # split -b 660m foobar # cat x*|diff foobar - # To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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