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+title: "Splitting Files to Circumvent Size Limits"
+date: 2020-09-07T20:41:25-04:00
+draft: false
+tags: []
+---
+
+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.
+
+```bash
+cat PART* > documents.tar.gz
+```
+