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| Title | Unix Tip: Reassembling Very Large "split" Files |
| Type | Tip |
| Source | ITworld 01/30/2008 |
| Summary | One of the unwritten rules of computing says that, as various storage media grow in size, so do the files that are written to them. I recently found myself staring at two files, each roughly 4 GB in size, that needed to be combined into one before the file could be decompressed and its contents extracted. What I was expecting to work with was a large cpio archive. I had loaded each of the file components from a DVD, thus the reason that the file had to be compressed and then broken into two pieces, each of which could be written to a DVD. continue  |
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