BSD Tar Question

[Garrett Cooper]

Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
>> Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Chris Maness wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does BSD tar implementation support splitting the archives?  I have 
>>>> a 8G file that I want to burn on DVDs.  I used to be able to do 
>>>> this with the linux GNU tar.
>>>
>>> I don't think so (atleast its not there in the manpages). Maybe you 
>>> can use the GNU version of tar from "archivers/gtar"?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rakhesh
>>
>>   Why not use tar -c[j|z]vf - | split ? See split(1) for more info.
>> -Garrett
>
> Silly me! I did check the split(1) manpage before posting that, you 
> know. But I guess I didn't read carefully, coz somehow I got the 
> impression it doesn't work on binary files. I checked again now -- 
> you're right. split(1) should do ...
>
> Thanks,
> Rakhesh
No prob :).
-Garrett