[ale] Cutting up directory

Chris Egolf cegolf at ugholf.net
Thu Feb 8 19:13:55 EST 2001


> Chris Fowler wrote:
> 
> I have a directory that is 4GB is size, how can I cut it up into 700MB
> chunks for burning to CD.  It is too hard to do it manually and I have
> many files to backup.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
Take a look at the 'split' command.  I've only used it with single
files, so you might have to tar up the directory first.
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