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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: File Cut for a binary file
Date: 8 Aug 1995 15:30:24 +0200
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Matthias Apitz <matthias@eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
>>I wish to find out if there exists routines to
>>cut a binary file ( around 20 Meg ) into smaller
>>segments of a specified size AND after transportation
>>to another location JOIN them back into the original
>>binary file ?
>
>dd if=your_file of=aaa count=2000 (BTW: 2000*512 byte)
>dd if=your_file of=bbb skip=2000 count=2000
>dd if=your_file of=ccc skip=4000 count=2000
But this is only for masochists. All other people prefer
split -b 1024000 your_file
instead. :-)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)