Archive for January, 2007

The opposite of split is cat.

Posted by dre on January 2nd, 2007

/usr/bin/split and /bin/cat, that is. Why is this useful information? Let’s imagine a wonderful world in which your web host gives you oodles of bandwidth and disk quota, and then one day secretly enacts a policy that disallows access to files over a certain (largish) size. Say, something like:
[Tue Jan 02 13:07:24 2007] [error] [client […]