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Re: Joining Large Files



--- "Stephen A. Witt" <sawitt@zeus.rsc.raytheon.com> wrote:
> I've got a 12 GB tar file (full of mp3 files) that I split up into 1
> GB
> segments using 'split'. My intention was to transfer these segments
> to
> another computer and join them together using 'cat'. But it seems
> that
> cat is limited to the 2 GB filesize limit. I've looked all around the
> net
> in an attempt to find a solution to no avail. Can anyone suggest a
> way of
> joining these files together again?
> 
> Thanks...
> 

I'd try create a 12 gig file, 

# touch bigfile
# dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1m count=12000

and use dd to patch files into bigfile (using seek? option of dd?)

hth,
Patrick.



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