spliting a large file into small chunks on linux

Written By Smart| 8 October 2009| No Comment

Using “split” command you chunk large files into smaller chunks.

For you if you have 500mb of file you chunk into 100mb file each

Split : split a file into pieces

admin@smartproteam~$ split 100mb mydocs-files.zip

it wil create 5 files each one of the size 100mb

xa

xb

xc

xd

xe

if you want to join all the files agian

admin@smartproteam~$cat x* > mydocs-files.zip

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