Re: [SLUG] split and join?

[Conrad Parker <conradp@nospam.ives.orchestra.cse.unsw.edu.au>]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 03:57:50PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote:
> hi slugs,
> i want to split a large file to two floppies and then join them together
> on  another machine.
> 
> so i looked around and found split and join executables.
> so i split the file. so far so good
> 
> can't seem to join it. if join is the right command.
> 
> how do you join up files that have been split?
> i.e xaa + xab into a new file called zzz for instance?

'cat' concatenates files:

cat xaa xab > zzz

will write the contents of xaa, followed by the contents of xab, to
zzz.

'join' does more complex merging, the manpage says it joins "lines of
two files on a common field"

Conrad.

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