On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 05:56:11PM +0000, John McCormac mentioned:
> 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.
Think unix man! It's a tool for each job...
gzip -dc file.gz | split -b 2000000000 - file-part-
> The file in question here is the com TLD zone file so it is only text.
Nutter.
Kate
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