On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:53:00PM -0500, Ruslan Sivak wrote: > I'm trying to back up our svn repositories, and I found a nice little > backup command line bzip's the backup and creates the md5 hash all in one: > > svnadmin dump --deltas /repo |bzip2 |tee dump.bz2 | md5sum >dump.md5 > > The problem is I need to split the backups, so this doesn't really work. > Is there perhaps another way of piping things to allow for splitting of the > backups? Currently I'm doing something like this > > svnadmin dump --deltas /repo |bzip2 |split - -b 64m > cat *.bz2* | md5sum >dump.md5 > > Is there a way to do this all in one step? Would something as simple as: svnadmin dump --deltas /repo | bzip2 | split - -b 64m && cat *.bz2* | md5sum >dump.md5 Work for you? :) Ray