bzip2split

Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com
Sun Dec 21 20:23:23 UTC 2008


Can I split a large (4G+) bzip2 file into smaller bzip2 files? Notes:

 % Obviously, 'split' won't work for 2 reasons:

  % Each chunk won't have the BZIP2 header

  % 'split' will cut the file inside a bzip2 "block", rendering the
  first/last blocks of each file unreadable.

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