On 05/15/2008 05:27 AM, Nick Fenwick wrote: > For what it's worth, I usually use rar for this task, because I can > figure out the command line in about 10 seconds by running 'rar' with no > arguments and check the help output, and they confuse my Windows-y > friends less if I need to pass them around. Install rar from rpmforge. I admit RAR is a file archiver that archives with very high compression ratios and is very popular in windows world. But is proprietary software (not Open Source). I recommend you using 7zip[0] currently leader in high compression on unix-like systems. > To split a directory of files into roughly 700Mb bits: > > rar a -v700000k rarname_to_create.rar dir_of_files 7za a -v700m rarname_to_create.rar dir_of_files Pre-packaged RPM is available at RPMforge[1] > I recently wanted to split a large .iso of already highly compressed > data into chunks that would fit on a FAT32 filesystem, so this is with > no compression: > > rar a -v700000k -m0 rarname_to_create.rar dir_of_files > > I just noticed that Fajar beat me to quoting google hits relating to > 'tar | split' so I'll hold off doing the same :) > > Nick cheers Simon [0] http://www.7-zip.org/ [1] http://rpmforge.net/user/packages/p7zip/
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