[parsec_kadets]

Hey everyone, I know this question has been sort of asked before but not quite. Anyway, I have a file that is roughly 10MB and I need to break it up into smaller chunks so that it's a little more e-mail friendly. Any ideas on how I can do this? I saw that Disk Copy can sort of do this, but the smallest chunk you're allowed to make is 90MB. That's just way too big.

[DeathMan]

http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14956


or if you're comfortable with the command line, fire up the terminal and type

man split

[Geobunny]

...and the obvious successor to this question is "how can we rejoin the segments?"

[parsec_kadets]

Originally posted by DeathMan:
http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14956


or if you're comfortable with the command line, fire up the terminal and type

man split

I'm perfectly comfortable with the command line, but I doubt the person I'm sending it to is. As for that app, thanks for the tip but if that's the only solution I think I'd rather post the file on my iDisk and have him download it that way. There's got to be a way to make smaller disk images. Apple did it with the Panther CD images; those are only about 29 MB.

[utidjian]

Originally posted by Geobunny:
...and the obvious successor to this question is "how can we rejoin the segments?"

Code:
[cider:~] utidjian% mkdir test_split
[cider:~] utidjian% cd test_split
[cider:~/test_split] utidjian% vi helloworld.c
[cider:~/test_split] utidjian% cat helloworld.c

#include <stdio.h>
 
main(){
printf("Hello World!\n");
return(0);
}

[cider:~/test_split] utidjian% cc helloworld.c
[cider:~/test_split] utidjian% ./a.out
Hello World!
[cider:~/test_split] utidjian% ls -l
-rwxrwxrwx  1 utidjian  utidjian  11572 Sep  9 21:16 a.out
-rw-r--r--  1 utidjian  utidjian     68 Sep  9 21:23 helloworld.c
[cider:~/test_split] utidjian% split -b2k a.out
[cider:~/test_split] utidjian% ls -l
-rwxrwxrwx  1 utidjian  utidjian  11572 Sep  9 21:16 a.out
-rw-r--r--  1 utidjian  utidjian     68 Sep  9 21:23 helloworld.c
-rw-rw-rw-  1 utidjian  utidjian   2048 Sep  9 21:30 xaa
-rw-rw-rw-  1 utidjian  utidjian   2048 Sep  9 21:30 xab
-rw-rw-rw-  1 utidjian  utidjian   2048 Sep  9 21:30 xac
-rw-rw-rw-  1 utidjian  utidjian   2048 Sep  9 21:30 xad
-rw-rw-rw-  1 utidjian  utidjian   2048 Sep  9 21:30 xae
-rw-rw-rw-  1 utidjian  utidjian   1332 Sep  9 21:30 xaf
[cider:~/test_split] utidjian% cat x[a-z][a-z] > foo
[cider:~/test_split] utidjian% chmod +x foo
[cider:~/test_split] utidjian% rm x*
[cider:~/test_split] utidjian% ls -l
-rwxrwxrwx  1 utidjian  utidjian  11572 Sep  9 21:16 a.out
-rwxrwxrwx  1 utidjian  utidjian  11572 Sep  9 21:35 foo
-rw-r--r--  1 utidjian  utidjian     68 Sep  9 21:23 helloworld.c
[cider:~/test_split] utidjian% ./foo
Hello World!
[cider:~/test_split] utidjian%

QED

[Brass]

Stuffit used to come with a "Drop Segment" utility that would do it. If you have an old version of the Stuffit suite, that would do it.

[utidjian]

Originally posted by parsec_kadets:
I'm perfectly comfortable with the command line, but I doubt the person I'm sending it to is.

Oooops forgot about that.
Should be AppleScriptable (or whatever)

[utidjian]

Originally posted by Brass:
Stuffit used to come with a "Drop Segment" utility that would do it. If you have an old version of the Stuffit suite, that would do it.

It would be a interesting feature for Mail.app to have an option to split files to some palatable size... and they could be auto-reassembled at the receiving end. But it would only work between similar email apps.

Could lead to some interesting problems if Apple had a mail app that executed certain things depending on email types. Much evil could come that way.

[MacMatt]

Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 can make any size segments that automatically rejoin.

[york28]

There's always .rar files. Although Stuffit chokes on them sometimes.

[gatorparrots]

Originally posted by parsec_kadets:
I saw that Disk Copy can sort of do this, but the smallest chunk you're allowed to make is 90MB. That's just way too big.

The command line program hdiutil (Disk Copy's engine) can produce segments of any size. Sadly, the GUI program is very limited in its options. So, to create segmented disk images, you would be better off with the command line or DropDMG ($10): http://www.c-command.com/dropdmg/index.shtml

[Douglashh]

There is little utility called Split&Concat that is on VersionTracker. I use it all the time and never had any problems.

Doug

[:XI:]

Originally posted by gatorparrots:
The command line program hdiutil (Disk Copy's engine) can produce segments of any size. Sadly, the GUI program is very limited in its options. So, to create segmented disk images, you would be better off with the command line or DropDMG ($10): http://www.c-command.com/dropdmg/index.shtml

Parsec, hdiutil was the prog i was thinking of in #macnn!

I knew I wasn't crazy!