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title: "Splitting Files to Circumvent Size Limits"
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date: 2020-09-07T20:41:25-04:00
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draft: false
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tags: []
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medium_enabled: true
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---
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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.
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## Create a Single File
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Skip to the next section if you only want to transfer a single file.
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Otherwise, let's say you have a folder of files named `Documents`. First, let's create a gzipped compressed archive that contains everything.
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```bash
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tar -czf documents.tar.gz Documents
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```
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## Splitting the File
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Next let's split the file into 1 GB parts.
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```bash
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split -b 1GB -d documents.tar.gz PART
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```
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Then transfer the files labeled PARTX where X is the part number over....
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## Re-combining
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Once the files are transfered, we use `cat` to bring the files back together.
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```bash
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cat PART* > documents.tar.gz
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```
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