Shad L. Lords 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? > > What about: > > svnadmin dump --deltas /repo | bzip2 | tee >(split -b 64m - dump.bz2.) > | md5sum > dump.md5 > > -Shad > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos This seems to work well, but I have no idea what it's doing. Can someone walk me through what tee >(split -b 64m - dump.bz2.) does and why? Russ