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Old 03-15-2004, 03:12 PM   #1
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TAR question..

I have 1 ISO file which is 600MB. Now I want to split it so people can download easy(especially 56K users). What command should I type if I want to split this file to multiple 20MB files?

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Old 03-15-2004, 03:35 PM   #2
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split --bytes=20971520 inputfile output
will split inputfile into 20MB chunks called outputa, outputb, outputc etc...
use cat to join them together again.
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Old 03-15-2004, 03:36 PM   #3
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looking at the man page, --bytes=20m will also do 20MB
 
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Re: TAR question..
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I have 1 ISO file which is 600MB. Now I want to split it so people can download easy(especially 56K users). What command should I type if I want to split this file to multiple 20MB files?

Thanks
Tell users to use wget and continue the download
whereever they stopped/got disconnected... :)


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