.TH TARSPLIT 1
.SH NAME
tarsplit, tarcat \- split a tar archive into archives under some size, or combine archives
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tarsplit
[
.B -p
.I prefix
] [
.B -s
.I size
] [
.I file
\&...
]
.PP
.B tarcat
[
.I file
\&...
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Tarsplit
copies a
.IR tar (1)
archive from input
.IR file (s)
into a series of independent
.I tar
archives with names starting with
.I prefix
.RL ( ts.\&
by default)
and no larger than a fixed
.I size
(512MB by default).
This can be useful when copying large archives onto
fixed-size storage media such as CDs or DVDs.
.PP
.I Tarsplit
prints a list on standard output
of the resulting archive names, and the first and last member names in each,
to assist finding particular members without recombining the archives.
.PP
.I Tarcat
copies
.IR tar (1)
archives from input
.IR file s
and combines them into a single
.I tar
archive.
It is the inverse of
.IR tarsplit .
.SH EXAMPLES
Archive
.B /adm
and split the result.
.IP
.EX
; tar c /adm | tarsplit -s 409600
ts.00000: /adm/ ... /adm/brickdb/have/timeout/viaduct60
ts.00001: /adm/brickdb/have/tls-log ... /adm/timezone/Australia_ACT
ts.00002: /adm/timezone/Australia_Broken-Hill ... /adm/words
; file ts.*
ts.00000: posix tar archive
ts.00001: posix tar archive
ts.00002: posix tar archive
.EE
.PP
Reassemble the original archive and check the tail end for completeness:
.IP
.EX
; tarcat ts.* | tar t | tail -2
\&./adm/whois
\&./adm/words
.EE
.SH FILES
.I prefixNNNNN
output archives
.SH SOURCE
.B /sys/src/cmd/tarsplit
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR bsplit (1),
.IR split (1)