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  • From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] some misc Linux tips
  • Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 07:35:22 +1300

James Miller wrote:
>
> One deals with splitting, then rejoining files
> using split (is it part of busybox, btw?).

No, the BL3 busybox does not have split.
But you can split files using dd (which is there).

> It's handy, for instance, when you have a long file
> that you want to transmit over an unreliable> network
> connection -- where (unlike modern FTP) the transfer
> protocol can't resume an interrupted transfer

BL3 has wget, which is able to resume an interrupted
transfer.

> It's best to use a utility like md5sum or sum to
> be sure that the reassembled bigfile.tar.gz is
> identical to the original.

BL3 has md5sum.

> dd if=/dev/urandom

BL3 does not have /dev/urandom but you can
created it by doing this:
------------------------
mknod /dev/urandom c 1 9
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> you can repeat the "wiping" command several times
> with the C shell repeat command

BL3 does not have repeat.

Cheers,
Steven

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