Splitting Files into multiple archives

Splitting files / Multiple archives

If you would like to create a multiple archive zip, tar or whatever, the easiest thing is to use split. Split any file into whatever size you wish like this:

split -b <number_of_megs>m <file_to_split>

which will create a sequence of files named <file_to_split>{aa,ab,ac,...}. You can add to pipes, define output filename, and more. See man page.

Rebuilding the split archive

To rebuild, use cat:

cat <file_to_split>?? > <file_to_split>

or feed the pipe directly to unzip or tar.

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