[Summary-Talk] Re: log split command

[Cameron Knowlton <cameron@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>Thanks I tried giving command uncompress -cfv access_log but it seems its 
not a compressed zip file. I get error access_log.Z . No such file or 
directory.
>
>>Then I can't get the access_log to split
>
>error: split: 1000M: illegal byte count.
>
>Does this command look right  split -b 1000M access_log
>
>Does anyone know the extension of the acc_log file on unix apache under OS X?
>
>>
>>split -b 1000M somehugefile.log
>>
>>
>>will split the file into 1GB pieces, which can then be restuffed into
>>individual files.
>>
>>it's important to note that it isn't enough to split the file into
>>pieces, then put the pieces back into one large zip file... it's the
>>aggregate of the uncompressed archive that needs to be less than 2gb.
>>
>>hope this helps.
>>cameron


I'm sorry, my mistake... that should have been a lowercase M:

split -b 1000m somehugefile.log

you could add the final split file name prefix to every generated file, 
too... otherwise you get informative file names such as xaa, xab, xac 
etc..:

split -b 1000m somehugefile.log somehugefile

will you get you:

somehugefilexaa, somehugefilexab, etc.

cheers
cam
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