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Have you ever needed to split a file into several parts? Today I made a VirtualBox Appliance which sizes 2.8 GB but I  have a 2 GB (1.8 Gb) pendrive. So, what can I do?…piece of cake, to use split and cat commands:

Split

Let’s say you want to split the file Draco.vdmk (a VirtualBox disk) into 1.5 Gb smaller parts, then just type:

split -b 1500m Draco.vmdk

Cat

In order to put thing together just use:

cat x* > Draco.vmdk

References

• Linux / Unix csplit command
• UNIX man pages : cat ()

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