Size restriction on cat comman

[marvin51796]

I am trying to combine 6 tar files from symantec by using the cat command, but the  combined tar file is always messed up, is there a limit on that? if so how to increaese it?

BL860cI2 - hp-ux 11vi3 patch march 2014.

[Dennis Handly]

>I am trying to combine 6 tar files

Were the 6 files originally one tarfile that was split?  If they are actually 6 tarfiles, why do you want to combine them?

Is the total over 2 GB and do you have largefiles enabled?

[marvin51796]

yes largefiles is enabled, the combined total is 9.8G, the other tar files that i combined was 4.5 and it worked with no problems..

[Dennis Handly]

>it worked with no problems.

Is the file size a multiple of 512 bytes?

[marvin51796]

here is what i have to work with.

-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        1835008000 Nov  3 10:20 1
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        1835008000 Nov  3 10:22 2
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        1835008000 Nov  3 10:24 3
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        1835008000 Nov  3 10:26 4
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        1835008000 Nov  3 10:30 5
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        648386560 Nov  3 10:32 6

i had to rename them to 1 thru 6, symantec had a 20+ charcter name to start with...when i am done with the command

cat 1 2 3 4 5 6 > NB_Appliance_N_2.6.0.1-1.tar

i end up with a tar file that looks like this

-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        9823426560 Nov  3 12:32 NB_Appliance_N_2.6.0.1-1.tar

[Dennis Handly]

>-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        9823426560 Nov  3 12:32 NB_Appliance_N_2.6.0.1-1.tar

Looks like the right sum.  What errors does "tar -tvf NB_Appliance_N_2.6.0.1-1.tar" give?

>I had to rename them to 1 thru 6, symantec had a 20+ character name

Not sure why?  Just put the cat in a script or use wildcards.

[marvin51796]

here is what happens when i extract the tar file.

x update.rpm.md5_checksum, 33 bytes, 1 tape blocks
x update.rpm.sha1_checksum, 81 bytes, 1 tape blocks
x SYMC_NBAPP_update-2.6.0.1-1.x86_64.rpm, 81 bytes, 1 tape blocks
khepx007:/var/opt/ignite/recovery/mec#

notice the file size of the 3rd file its supposed to be alot bigger..not sure of the exact size, symantec havent told me

but the total size is over 9G

[marvin51796]

i even set ulimit to unlimited just to verify that it wasnt that also.

[Dennis Handly]

These appear to be Linux files, why are you using HP-UX's tar?  Perhaps you need gnu tar?

[marvin51796]

It actually ended up being a weird setup from symantec, we had to do it different and on the PC side this time...

thanks everyone