[ILUG] Gzip problem

[Garret Flynn]

> Thanks - it was beginning to do my head in here. :-) I was about to go
> and delve into the source of gzip. Actually it might be a good thing to
> include a splitting option in gzip that would allow a single large file
> to be broken into two smaller ones. The file in question here is the com
> TLD zone file so it is only text.
> 
> Regards...jmcc

you maybe able to get around the problem by un-gzip'ing to
 sdtout (gzip -c) then piping it through split or something

eg
gzip -c bigfile.gz |split -l 10000  

which should split it into lots of 10000 lines files

-Garret