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Splitting and joining files on a Mac

January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

http://ceitl.zanestate.edu/blog/archives/2008/01/splitting-and-joining-files-on-a-mac/ asks Hoosgot,

Hoosgot a free file archiver/splitter for Mac? I couldn’t find one so I’m resorting to the command line to split and join big files. Splitting a file You can use the ’split’ command to chop up a file into parts. If you have multiple files or want to split a directory, archive it first using tar or zip. I generally tar everything up anyway. Optional: tar -czvf bigfile.tar.gz bigfile where bigfile is the name of the big file you want to archive. Split the file using ’split’. You can tell split to break up the file into chunks of a given size using the -m switch; append k (for kilobytes) or m (for megabytes) to the number to specify units.

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