SUMMARY: Is there a size limit on files to be zipped or bzip2ed?
2007-12-24 21:53:00
The gzip, bzip2 and zip binaries that ship with Solaris 8 are not
compatible files larger than 2GB. To check which binaries are: man
largefiles (Rene Occelli).
Three valid solutions to my problem were presented:
1) Get new versions of the utilities
gzip 1.3.2 is compatible (thanks Joe Fletcher)
- Source from www.gzip.org
bzip2 1.0.1 is compatible (thanks Cyril Pilsko)
- Binaries form sunfreeware.org
2) Trick the old utilities
(Warning: I have not had time to verify the compressed file, but they
ran fine)
Justine Stringfellow:
cat <file> | bzip2 > file.bz
cat <file> | zip > file.zip
Casper Dik:
bzip2 < file > file.bz2
3) use "split"
Several people ...
Thanks for all your help,
mark
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