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How to create tar archive split into, or spanning, multiple files?

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Mar 15, 202697119 views
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According to this page, one can let tar create a tar archive "split" into 100 Mb files: The problem is that this command will require you to interactively give a new filename for the next file, after the first file is filled. Anybody knows of a way to skip this interactive step, and let tar do the …

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tar -c -M --tape-length=102400 --file=disk1.tar largefile.tgz

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You can use split for this: This tells tar to send the data to stdout, and split to pick it from stdin - additionally using a numeric suffix ( ), a chunk size ( ) of 100M and using 'tardisk' as the base for the resulting filenames (tardisk00, tardis…

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