OT: usage of split
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Mon Jun 20 03:36:44 GMT 2005
In the last episode (Jun 19), Andrew L. Gould said:
> Regarding the usage of split to divide files into several parts:
>
> 1. Can the split utility be used on binary files?
split -b bytes infile basename.
> 2. How does one rejoin the resulting split files to recreate the
> original file? I assume you can cat text files into a new file using
> redirection (>>); but can you do that with a binary file?
cat basename.* > newfile
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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