[WBEL-users] Tools to cut big files ?

Kirby Bohling kbohling@birddog.com
Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:37:59 -0500


On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 06:53:42PM +0200, 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. 

man split 

My guess is this:

split -b 700000000 file 

You'll end up with files named xaa xab xac ...

> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Jean