-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/10/07 04:43, Sean Zimmermann wrote: > Hello. > > 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
- -M > recently read that I can use split to do the same thing. Is there an > advantage > or disadvantage to using split over tar -m? Since split(1) can take it's input from stdin, ISTM that compati- bility should be a driving force in your decision. > Also, is there some way to index a large tar file, so if I want to extract a > file at the end of a large archive, tar doesn't have to seek through the > entire > archive to get the file? tar(1) means Tape ARchive. Since tape drives are sequential beasts, there's not much purpose in indexing tarballs. OTOH, ar-balls appears to create internal indexes. > Thank you for any help. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHDMQNS9HxQb37XmcRAgIBAKDGoild3yvehP4INaU1o9yNZNHJrgCgyohe MVGQnw5s5KBJ6+gyrRCtgBo= =R5Nv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
