Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:25:57AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote
> Hi,
>    Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file
> into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then
> use cat to reassemble?
>
>    Is there some better way to do this?

  That's what split was written for.  I can't think of anything better.
BTW, what type of data is the 10 gig file?  If it's text, then consider
using zip or bzip2 on each of the fragments before transferring.  If
it's an already compressed binary format, then don't waste time
attempting further compression.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>