Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Splitting large files

Simple howto split large file into several parts.

In the following example the file IMAGE.iso is splitted into several 1,5GB files.

Command for splitting: split -b 1500m IMAGE.iso part
This command will create several parts named like partaa,  partab, partac etc.

Joining these files back together: cat parta* > IMAGE.iso

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