Multiple archives

[Igaduma]

Hello Forum,
I need to create multiple archives of a 2Gb file & mail that to a client.
The automatic mail&attachement script is working but I have no clue on how to actually create 1.5Mb archives out of 2Gb file when the target is not a tapedevice but a disk.
I kept this problem as last, always tried nice single files....but eventually I have to tackle this.
How can you do something like this ?

At this point I'm ready to go for any solution whatsoever, I searched high & low, came across the k size & M options for tar on numerous sites but all to no avail...

thanks for any help list

Iga

 

[spoodie]

You may kick yourself when I tell you this but there is a command called 'split' which, if I'm reading your question correctly, will do exactly what you want. Have a read of the man page, it's fairly obvious but to get you started try:

split -b 1500k [file_name] [new_file_name]

You're going to end up with a lot of files.

The person at the other end can join the files using 'cat':

cat [first_file] > [joined_file]
cat [second_file] >> [joined_file]
cat [third_file] >> [joined_file]
...

Post again if you need further help.

spoodie
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[Igaduma]

and in dos we go
type file1 > combined
type file2 > combined

I am one happy little pig,

Iga




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