[WBEL-users] Tools to cut big files ?

[Vicki Reeves]

Jean LEE wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Does anybody knows a tool which is able to cut big files.
>  
> I would like to cut a 3 Gbytes file in 4 or 5 parts (each of 700 Mb) in 
> order to be able to burn it.
>  
> Thanks for any help.
>  
> Jean

Have you considered the old unix standby 'split'?  Type man split to see 
if it works for what you want to do.  I've used it from time to time. 
You can specify file size.  Unless you give it other instruction, it 
will name the new files something like xaa, xab, xac....

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