Split Files Into Chunks

Split is a really easy Linux command you can use to split large files into smaller chunks.

Split is quick and painless to use, this is how you split a 800MB file into 100MB chunks with the prefix splt_:

split -b 100m fileName.avi splt_

This will result in a number of files named splt_aa, splt_ab, splt_ac

You can put the pieces back together with cat

cat splt_* > fileName.avi

Reference

• Split Man Page
• 10 Linux commands you've never used
• Split Help
• The linux split command