On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Kussh Singh kussh.singh@gmail.com wrote:
In windows there were many GUI programs that could split large files and then join the fragments as required. But i couldnot find any programs in ubuntu/linux yet.
"split" works only for text files, i think and so does "join" on the
Not true. split can split files on bytes too
SPLIT(1) User Commands SPLIT(1)
NAME split - split a file into pieces
SYNOPSIS split [OPTION]... [INPUT [PREFIX]]
DESCRIPTION Output fixed-size pieces of INPUT to PREFIXaa, PREFIXab, ...; default size is 1000 lines, and default PREFIX is ‘x’. With no INPUT, or when INPUT is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a, --suffix-length=N use suffixes of length N (default 2)
-b, --bytes=SIZE put SIZE bytes per output file
-C, --line-bytes=SIZE put at most SIZE bytes of lines per output file