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= See also =
 
= See also =
* [http://man-wiki.net/index.php/1:split split's man page]
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* [http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?split split's man page]

Latest revision as of 05:09, 19 April 2014

split is a command that splits a file into several chunks like this:

# ls hugefile.tar.gz      
hugefile.tar.gz
# split -b 2GB hugefile.tar.gz 
# ls -ltr
[...]
-rw-r--r--  1 username users 5047163622 2012-07-05 05:07 hugefile.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 username users 2000000000 2012-07-05 06:18 xaa
-rw-r--r--  1 username users 2000000000 2012-07-05 06:18 xab
-rw-r--r--  1 username users 1047163622 2012-07-05 06:18 xac

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