connecting to a server

[Colin Law]

On 13 January 2011 10:12, Amedee Van Gasse <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> On Wed, January 12, 2011 18:11, Tony Pursell wrote:
>
>>> Is there any way to split
>>> up the file, write the pieces of the file to disk, read the disks on the
>>> laptop and then reconstruct the big file from its pieces.   This would
>>> be very laborious and the network route is far better.
>>>
>>
>> There is a utility called 'split' that will split up text files and then
>> you can put then back together with 'cat' (just make sure you cat the
>> pieces together in the right order, of course).
>>
>> If the file is binary you will need to text encode it first. The
>> 'base64' utility will do that.
>
> There is no need to encode a binary file to split it. Just use split, for
> example:
>
> # That's 1 GB, 1000^3 bytes
> split --bytes=1GB --numeric-suffixes bigfile splitfile
> # makes splitfile00 splitfile01 splitfile02 splitfile03 ...
> # copy files to your laptop and put them back together
> cat splitfile00 splitfile01 splitfile02 splitfile03 > bigfile
> # Using wildcards with cat seems to work fine too:
> cat splitfile?? > bigfile

Is it guaranteed to get them in the right order using wildcards?

Colin