How to join .tar.gz splitted files?
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Hi,
I have compressed 6 GB folder on our server(LINUX), than splitted using this command,
tar cf myfolder.tar myfolder
split -b 500m myfolder.tar myfolder.tar_so i got files like this
myfolder.tar.gz_aa
myfolder.tar.gz_ab
myfolder.tar.gz_ac
myfolder.tar.gz_ad
and so on.After that i downloaded these files in computer(Windows). Now i want to extract them using Power Archiver, Please tell me how i can do this ?
When i open myfolder.tar.gz_aa in PowerArchiver it is loaded, but when i open 2nd file so i got this error,
PA can not open this file, It does not appear to be a valid archive.
Your help will be appreciated thanks.
Best Regards,
Farrukh Hussain
Http://www.websolpro.com -
You need to “join” the files back into a single file before it can be uncompressed. L/Unix split seperates on bytes and also has a join command - under windows I guess you could try a utility such as hjsplit.
Note: you may also have to rename the files by changing the alpha suffic to numeric
aa -> 01
ab -> 02
ac -> 03 etc. -
Hi,
Still this technique is not working. Please tell me how i can join these files or uncompress them thanks.
Regards,
Web Solution Provider -
Still this technique is not working.
So what did you do and what happened - what error message(s) etc?
I am already assuming that you have enough disk space and that you have NTFS format (for 6GB file).
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Hi,
Thank you, First of all i changed all names .001 , .002 and than used hjsplit and it joined all files, now all are extracting :)
Best Regards,
Web Solution Provider
Http://www.websolpro.com -
:p
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You can also use the copy command from windows command line:
copy /b file1+file2+file3 > whole_file.bin
no extra tools needed :)
