Ray Van Dolson wrote: > 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 > Good idea, but no. The idea is to minimize disk IO, so I don't want to read the files that I just wrote. I wish tee had a split option... Russ