On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:35:32AM +1100, Lux Zhang wrote: > what are tools to split a large file (etc 700mb a.avi) into small > pieces and then the merger to merge them? People have suggested 'split' and 'cat'. These are at best marginal, at worst simply won't work for binary files. Look for a script called 'bsplit'. If you can't find a distributed version, something like the attached will work. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat President, DMINET Consulting, Inc. dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx
# # bsplit [n] name # # Breaks a file into N-block parts, where a block is 512 bytes # # Author: Dave Ihnat. Released as a work in the Public Domain. BCOUNT=0 FCOUNT=0 BSKIP=0 if [ $# -eq 2 ] then BCOUNT=$1; shift; else BCOUNT=100; fi; OUTFILE=$1; PREFIX=00 while [ TRUE ] do echo "$OUTFILE.${PREFIX}${FCOUNT}" # dd of=$OUTFILE.${PREFIX}${FCOUNT} skip=$BSKIP count=$BCOUNT dd of=$OUTFILE.${PREFIX}${FCOUNT} count=$BCOUNT if [ $? -ne 0 ] then break; fi; if [ ! -s $OUTFILE.${PREFIX}${FCOUNT} ] then rm $OUTFILE.${PREFIX}${FCOUNT} break; fi; FCOUNT=`expr $FCOUNT + 1` if [ "$FCOUNT" -gt 99 ] then PREFIX="" elif [ "$FCOUNT" -gt 9 ] then PREFIX="0" fi; BSKIP=`expr $BSKIP + $BCOUNT` done exit 0
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