Re: dd strangeness

abc wrote:
> I need to split a large stream of approx 600 GB that gets generated by
> Solaris' zfs send command. I could try the whole chain with a big
> enough file but I don't see how the zfs command could be the problem
> as it only generates a stream.
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> Thanks,
> Lucia

Lucia,
Did you try the 'split' command, which is designed to split an
infinitely large input into chunks whose size you specify?

HTH,
Colin S. Miller

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