Looking for file splitter/joiner with GUI [solved]

[seaeagle]

Can anyone recommend a good file splitter/joiner that has a GUI, and will handle all types of files? I know you can do the task via the command line, but I would feel a lot more comfortable using a GUI. I'm running Mandriva 2005LE & would prefer it as an rpm package if possible.

 

Thanks

[theYinYeti]

I'll take the risk of getting flamed :unsure:

 

I know you want GUI, but since I don't know of such a tool, I'll tell you what I know of the command-line tool, even though you explicitely asked not to...

 

Why? you ask... Well, it seems to me it's more a matter of confidence in yourself. And you'll see: it is not that difficult :)

 

So let's say you have a big file in your home directory (which is the default directory a terminal window opens in). I'll assume thar your file is named "bigfile.img" (it's just an example: replace with whatever your file is named), and that it is somewhere bellow 50MB big, and that you want to split it in parts 1MB each. Here is what you would execute:

split -b 1m 'bigfile.img' 'bigfile.img_'

 

With this command, you'll get 50 files, from "bigfile.img_aa" to "bigfile.img_bx", each 1MB big, except the last one of course.

 

Now if you have these files, and you want to get the big file again, you just have to execute this:

cat 'bigfile.img_'?? >'bigfile.img'

 

I hope this helps.

 

Yves.

[scarecrow]

Krusader ( a nice dualpane filemanager for KDE which immitates Total Commander for Windows) does the job very well.

[seaeagle]

Thanks to both of you - the speedy help was appreciated.

[johnz]

:D A big thanks to YinYeti

For weeks i'v been looking for a program to join a big mp3 file that was split up into a dozen small files, just tried YinYeti's command line tutorial and it worked a treat.

[theYinYeti]

You're welcome :)