Re: [SLE] 9.1 update mirror -- getting file limits with gzip

2 Oct 2006

      On Monday 02 October 2006 11:40, stephan beal wrote:
...
You can work around the 2GB problem with gzip by compressing as a
stream instead of a file.
e.g., instead of:
gzip myBigFile
do:
cat myBigFile | gzip -c > myBigFile.gz
rm myBigFile
PS: that also works for scp'ing files on older systems where scp has a 
2GB limit:

cat myBigFile | ssh me@remotehost 'cat > /path/to/myBigFile'

that is functionaly the same as:

scp myBigFile me@remote:/path/to/myBigFile

but works around the size limitation. Of course, you're still subject to 
file size limitations on the target filesystem.

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