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Extracting a multi-part tar made with 7-Zip in Windows

  • 12-02-2005 08:54PM
    #1
    radiospan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭


    I had a large file (66MB) in Windows, which I wanted to upload in ~3.5MB parts via FTP to my web server. I then planned on telnetting to the server and recreating the original file on the server.

    I used 7-Zip to create the Tar file(s) in Windows, and I used the "Split to volumes" option. This gave files:

    filename.tar.001,
    filename.tar.002,
    filename.tar.003, etc...

    I uploaded the 21 of these to the server via FTP, and now I'm looking for a way to extract the original file?

    I've telnetted in, and tried a bit of tar and copy, but no luck so far. Is there anyway of doing this in Unix?

    Maybe I should have made the multi-part tar file with the tar program in the first place, but I can't find Windows binaries of it anywhere?

    EDIT: Never mind, I just had to get p7zip for unix.


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  • #2
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Try the -M or --multi-archive option of tar. RTFM: man tar.

    adam


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