Re: [suse-programming-e] SuSE 8.0: Compress and split a big sized file into smaller files

On Thursday 28 July 2005 9:02 pm, robert guru wrote:

hallo,

there is any shell command that compress and split a big sized file into many smaller compressed files for example a data file (file.data) with the size of 15 Mega bytes will compressed (by tar command for example) and divided to many smaller files of 3 mega each file (file.data1.zip, file.data2.zip .... ), because i have to email those files as attachments.

PS: I would like that the zipped files will be recognized and gathered by windows too (like Win-rare tool)..

The split(1) command will do this for you. I don't know what compatibility it has with Windows, but if you install Cygwin (or possibly Microsoft Unix Tools) you should be ok.