split - is used to split large files into smaller files

syntax $ split {options} {file_name} {prefix}

$ cat example.txt This is line 1 This is line 2 This is line 3 This is line 4 This is line 5 This is line 6 This is line 7 This is line 8 This is line 9 This is line 10

To split example.txt with verbose option $ split example.txt --verbose

To split files with customize line numbers $ split -l5 example.txt --verbose

To split files with file size $ split -b 4 example.txt --verbose (in bytes) $ split -b 2K <file_name> --verbose (in Kb) $ split -b 2M <file_name> --verbose (in Mb) $ split -b 1G <file_name> --verbose (in Gb)

To create Split files with numeric suffix instead of alphabetic $ split -d example.txt --verbose x00

To split file with customize suffix $ split -l5 example.txt ilugc_file

To generate n chunks output files $ split -n5 <file_name>

To Prevent Zero Size Split output files $ split -n60 -e example.txt

To create split output files of customize suffix length $ split -b 4 example.txt -a 3 $ split -b 4 example.txt -a 4

To split ISO file and merge it into a single file $ split -n5 ubuntu-22.04.iso Split_IS0_ it will split ISO file into 5 pieces

To merge these files into a single $ cat Split_IS0_a* > ubuntu22.04_new.iso

To verify the integrity of merge file using md5sum before split of iso $ md5sum ubuntu22.04.iso after split and merge $ md5sum ubuntu22.04_new.iso

regards, T.Dhanasekar