[Discuss] SCP file size limitations

George Farris farrisg at shaw.ca
Wed Nov 22 20:35:44 PST 2006


On Wed, 2006-22-11 at 18:26 -0800, pw wrote:
> George Farris wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-22-11 at 11:23 -0800, pw wrote:
> > 
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>Does anyone know if there is a file size limitation for
> >>SCP?
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Oops forgot to say with split you just cat the files back together.
> > 
> > cat file1 file2 files3 > original
> > 
> 
> 
> Except that the overhead becomes twice the size of the original file.

Eh?  What are you talking about?  Split will split a binary file into
binary pieces.  No bigger than the original.

-- 
George Farris
farrisg at shaw.ca




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