Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 20:46:08 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splitting a tar archive Message-ID: <20011102204608.C6967@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20011102193715.W2484-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net>; from nils@tisys.org on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:38:21PM %2B0100 References: <20011102115516.A59349@grumpy.dyndns.org> <20011102193715.W2484-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net>
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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
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