Re: Splitting up files into equal sized groups O/T

[Wingot <wingot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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• From: Wingot <wingot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• To: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Splitting up files into equal sized groups O/T
• Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 00:09:36 +0800
• In-reply-to: <20070514160030.7b86cdb7.pws@xxxxxxx>
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Peter Stephenson wrote:

zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  

Hi
I want to zip up 50 or so very large files into 4 huge zip files.

The problem is that the files themselves are all very different
sizes, I want to find a way of splitting up the list of files into
four lists so that the size of the resulting zips are roughly the
same size. 
(I don't want to use split zips)
    

The neatest way would be to tar (or, failing that, shar) the files up and
split that.  The overhead isn't that great.

  

Beyond this you would need some sort of a script, including conditionals, to solve the problem as you have described it (roughly equal sized, independent archives).

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