command line for compressing using rar?

[benicio]

anybody know how to zip a folder with 500mb?
i want to create zip files with about 100mb each. please?

how do i do it in rar?

whats the commandline please?

Hello,

zip file1 file2 file3

Would create a zip file of three files with the name file1. The first file name specified on the command line is automatically chosen as the name of the resultant compressed file.

also see

man zip

for more info

Hope this helps,

ky

[benicio]

that didn't do anything.

Hello,

Works fine here.

[kyryder@localhost testzip]$ zip file1 file2 file3
  adding: file2 (stored 0%)
  adding: file3 (stored 0%)
[kyryder@localhost testzip]$ ll file1.zip
-rw-rw-r--. 1 kyryder kyryder 276 2010-04-01 16:48 file1.zip
[kyryder@localhost testzip]$

Try reading the manual

man zip

Ky

[forkbomb]

benicio asked for a multipart rar file, not a single zip file containing two other files, at least as far as I understand.

I don't know if any third-party repositories are packaging rar right now. unrar is in RPMFusion but I don't see a program for creating rars in RPMfusion.

Winrar's website contains tarballs for Linux install, though.

[Hlingler]

RPMFusion has unrar in non-free. To create *.rar archives, ATRPMs has rar, however, beware of mixing the two repos (keep one or the other disabled for automatic updates).

V

[antjoh]

I don't have a linux install available right now to test this, but if I remember correctly I think I used the cut command for this a while back. Basically what you do is to zip the file as you normally do in to one big file and then chop it up with cut in desired sizes.

When you want to extract it you would use cat to concatenate the choped up files back in to one and then finally unzip it as normal. Something like "cat file1 file2 file3 >> myZip.zip"

As I said, this is untested but it feels like it *should* work

---------- Post added at 07:33 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 07:02 PM CDT ----------

Maybe the command is "split" and not cut when I think about it...

[smr54]

Both Ubuntu and Archlinux have a rar program. (Sometimes, I can get away with installing Ubuntu in a VM, and then using its alien program to create an rpm. it doesn't always work, but sometimes it does.)

With Arch, it's in the AUR, not the main package tree.
(FreeBSD also has it.)