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Multizip 0.1

Utility for compress and split files.

The utility consists of two programs:

• multizip -> Command line program to compress or split files.
• multiunzip -> Command line program to uncompress or join files.

Multizip

Utility to compress and split files or folders.

SYNTAX: multizip <input files> [optional parameters]

Optional parameters can be:

-h or --help;

Print help information.

-o <file name> or --output=<<filename>>

Set output file name. If not specified, a default name will be used.

-s <max.size> or --size=<<max.size>>

Split the compressed file in files of "max.size" kilobytes.

Example 1: Compress the file this.txt to this.zip

multizip this.txt

Example 2: Compress the files 1.txt and 2.txt to 12.zip

multizip 1.txt 2.txt -o 12.zip

Example 3: Compress all the *.txt files to text.zip

multizip *.txt -o text.zip

Example 4: Compress an split the file a.txt in parts of 10KB

multizip a.txt -s 10

Compressed files will be saved as the standard name *.zip.

Compressed and splitted files will be saved as several names with a number as ordinal: *.0.zp *.1.zp *.2.zp...

Multiunzip

Utility to uncompress and join files or folders compressed or splitted by MULTIZIP.

SYNTAX: Multiunzip <input file> [optional parameters]

<input file> is the compressed file. For join splitted files, only the *.0.part must be indicated

Optional parameters can be:

-h or --help

Print help information.

-f <folder name> or --folder=<folder name>

Set output folder where extract compressed files. If not specified, it.
will be used the same folder of the compressed file.

Example 1: Uncompress the file this.zip to this.zip

multiunzip this.zip

Example 2: Join the files text.0.zp, text.1.zp, ...

multiunzip text.0.zp