Re: Regarding tar and split
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On 10/10/2007 11:43 AM, Sean Zimmermann wrote:
> Hello.
Hi Sean
> I frequently work with large tar archives that often need to be split into
> smaller pieces. Up until now, I've used tar -m to create multi-part archives. I
> recently read that I can use split to do the same thing. Is there an advantage
> or disadvantage to using split over tar -m?
One reason is portability to other Unices. Debian packages the GNU tool
chain, which have advanced and enhanced features.
IMHO Solaris native tar can't extract multi-part tar archives. But
"split" is installed on most derivate.
cheers
Simon
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