Split large file with tar

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RedHat Commands. OpenSolaris Commands. Linux Commands. SunOS Commands. FreeBSD Commands. Full Man Repository. Advanced Search. Contact Us. Forum Rules. Mark Forums Read. Thread Tools. View Public Profile for zp How to do this? We can use file instead of path to folder for the argument. Then we will split up our file archive into small parts. We have a video file name video. We will split it into 5 MB per parts.

We can do :. He used the split command but messed-up and converted it into hundreds of thousands of 9 byte chunks! At that time, when the split utility ran out of keyboard characters it started to use the ASCII character set resulting in very strangely named files. AFAIR it took him about five hours to undo the damage. If you're reading, Hi C! This feature is only available to subscribers. Get your subscription here. Log in or Sign up. On this page How to split large archives Conclusion.

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