[Resolved] Splitting Large Files

[codeDV]

I was wondering if there is a program for linux that is able to split large files into smaller files ready for copying to a cd.

[Doug_G]

man split

[codeDV]

Thanks very much for the help. But after splitting the file. How would I go about re-joining it. I've had a look at the join command and it does not appear to be what I need.

[Doug_G]

You can reassemble a group of splits using cat in *nix. If your split files ended up like xxaa, xxab, xxac, etc, you could do

cat xxa* > reassembledfile

In windows you can use copy in to reassemble the split file.

[codeDV]

That works perfectly:

cat docs* | gunzip -c - | tar xvf -

Its amazing what Linux can do. Especially with regards to standard input and output redirection. So much more powerful than DOS.

I havn't been brave enough yet to install a GUI. If windows is anything to go by, thats when things begin to get complicated.

Thanks for the help,

ADAM