on 5-15-2008 1:31 PM Simon Jolle sjolle spake the following:
On 05/15/2008 05:27 AM, Nick Fenwick wrote:
For what it's worth, I usually use rar for this task, because I can figure out the command line in about 10 seconds by running 'rar' with no arguments and check the help output, and they confuse my Windows-y friends less if I need to pass them around. Install rar from rpmforge.
I admit RAR is a file archiver that archives with very high compression ratios and is very popular in windows world.
But is proprietary software (not Open Source).
I recommend you using 7zip[0] currently leader in high compression on unix-like systems.
To split a directory of files into roughly 700Mb bits:
rar a -v700000k rarname_to_create.rar dir_of_files
7za a -v700m rarname_to_create.rar dir_of_files
Pre-packaged RPM is available at RPMforge[1]
You just can't beat one thing about tar and gzip on unix like systems -- they all come with it "from the factory".