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Re: Joining Large Files



In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.44.0209070626250.6346-100000@zeus.rsc.raytheon.com>,
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?

You need a 2.4 kernel, at least glibc 2.2, and an up-to-date
distribution (so that programs like 'cat' are compiled against
the new library) to work with files > 2GB.

So if the 'other computer' is running potato, or another older
linux distribution, there is no way to use files > 2GB.

Mike.



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