Spilt the large file

[ivychung2]

I have a large file ( over 10G size ) , I want to spilt it into 10 parts , each of them are 1G evenly , what is the simplest way to do that ? thx

[ivychung2]

sorry , it should be "split" the file .

[Arunvijai_4]

Hello,

You can use "split" command. Do a man split to find more information.

-Arun

[ivychung2]

I got it , thx

[Senthil Kumar .A_1]

Hi ivychung2,

This thread deserves a Bunny, if it has solved your purpose. :)

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28

Regards,
Senthil Kumar .A

[Raj D.]

Hi ibychung2 ,

You can do this to split the 10G file into 10 parts :

# split -b 1000000k filename


each splitted file size will be 1GB in size.


Cheers,
Raj.

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
you can split the file with:
split -b 1024m filename

This will create 10 1Gb files named:
xaa,xab,xac ...

[Frank de Vries]

Hi ibychung2 ,

You can split the 10G file into 10 parts
like this:

Example:
# split -b 1000000k filename


each splitted file size will be 1GB in size.

Regards,