Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 14:23:33 -0600 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splitting a tar archive Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20011102142333.00faefc0@mail.sage-american.com> 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>
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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
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