Re: [SLUG] How would I....

From: Paul Braman (aeon@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 11:10:02 EDT


On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Norbert Omar Cartagena wrote:

> Ok, I'm still dealing with that really big file (3giger!). Now, how
> would I do something like split
>
> split filename.tgz
>
>
> and pass off the split pieces off to another directory (say
> /home/weeeee)? Something like this, maybe?
>
> split file.tgz | cd /home/weeeee
> (split send the files to /home/weee instead of ./ )

That's easy.

        cd /path/to/destination
        split /path/to/origination/filename.tgz

I just wonder how you *made* a file this big if none of the tools you are
using to unpack it will handle it. What tool allowed you to create such a
big file that you can't use it?

Paul Braman
aeon@tampabay.rr.com



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