Tom Horsley wrote:
I have the f12 Beta dvd images run through "split -b 1G" on
a vfat usb stick. For both the i36 and the x86_64 images
when I do something like this:
cat Fedora-12-Beta-x86_64-DVD.isoa* > ~/Fedora-12-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso
The sha256sum -c fails on the resulting file :-(. (The checksums
checked OK on the original files I downloaded).
Then I do this:
cat Fedora-12-Beta-x86_64-DVD.isoaa > ~/Fedora-12-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso
cat Fedora-12-Beta-x86_64-DVD.isoab >> ~/Fedora-12-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso
cat Fedora-12-Beta-x86_64-DVD.isoac >> ~/Fedora-12-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso
cat Fedora-12-Beta-x86_64-DVD.isoad >> ~/Fedora-12-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso
The resulting file is the same size as the one I got the 1st time,
but this file passes the sha256sum -c.
Has bash started randomly ordering wildcard expansion or something?
I don't think bash has ever ordered the files. Instead, they're listed
in the order matched.
Where order matters, something modelled on this:
echo $(\ls Derf*)
or echo $(ls -1 Der* | sort)
ls supports ordering on other criteria than filename, even for short lists.
That said, my testing on RHEL6-clone just now doesn't support my
contention, so maybe I misremember something.
btw FAT32 does support files larger than 1 Gb, and you can format them
ext2 if you wish. I'd not bother with journals in the ordinary course of
events.
<after further research>
DESCRIPTION
The scandir() function scans the directory dir, calling
filter() on each directory entry. Entries
for which filter() returns non-zero are stored in strings
allocated via malloc(), sorted using
qsort() with the comparison function compar(), and collected in
array namelist which is allocated via
malloc(). If filter is NULL, all entries are selected.
Why you appeared to have the files concatenated in the wrong order, I'm
running out of ideas.
This might help elucidate:
echo \
cat Fedora-12-Beta-x86_64-DVD.isoa* \> ~/Fedora-12-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso
Note I escaped the ">" so as to prevent its interpretation by your
shell. This command will show you what bash thinks it's doing.
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