Let's say you want to transfer file(s) over to someone and there is a limit the size you can transfer over. Maybe because of the physical medium or the online service you're using. You can make use of the terminal tool `split` in order to get the chunks over there and then use `cat ` to combine it back to one file.
## Create a Single File
Skip to the next section if you only want to transfer a single file.
Otherwise, let's say you have a folder of files named `Documents`. First, let's create a gzipped compressed archive that contains everything.
```bash
tar -czf documents.tar.gz Documents
```
## Splitting the File
Next let's split the file into 1 GB parts.
```bash
split -b 1GB -d documents.tar.gz PART
```
Then transfer the files labeled PARTX where X is the part number over....
## Re-combining
Once the files are transfered, we use `cat` to bring the files back together.
