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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-augsburg.de!lrz-muenchen.de!thias!matthias From: matthias@eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Matthias Apitz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: File Cut for a binary file Date: 8 Aug 95 07:52:39 GMT Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <guru.807868359@thias> References: <RPANCHOL.95Aug6204025@westphal.ch.intel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: thias.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de rpanchol@westphal.ch.intel.com (Ranju Pancholi -FT-~) writes: >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 .... After transportation use "cat aaa bbb ccc .... > your_new_file" Maybe you should also use compress or gzip for the segments and see also man dd(1) Hope that helps. -- matthias@eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de