Large Files Problem

[chrismfz]

Hello people. This is my first post, be nice with me

"Renting" a box somewhere in the US (I am from Greece)
I tried to download there first a large file (3.3GB) and from there
to my workstation in Greece (thats because I wanted this file quick
in a drive that I know that I own... and of course because the box have 40-50mb speed and in Greece I have the ultimate 384kb speed....(...))

Gooood, the download complete in about 30 minutes... And when I tried to
download from my server I realised after some ...reading that I cannot
download files bigger than 2GB from apache either pureftp that I am running..

And from asking help how to make this possible, I prefer to ask
how can I split this file and break it into pieces of eg 500MB
and then download them one by one...

I tried a script named split-tar but the file that it creates it was the same size with the original one (...).

Any suggestions ?

ps: Forgive me for my awful stinky english...


Thanks in advance,
Christos Panagiotakis

[dishawjp]

Christos,

There is a pretty standard Linux utility called split. See "man split" for usage, but what I think you will be looking for is the -b flag to set the size to something like 500MB.

split -b 500000000 <filename>

Use the "cat" command to reassemble your file once you've downloaded it to your local machine.

BTW, Your English is great; nothing to apologize for :-)

HTH,

Jim

[chrismfz]

Thanks a lot!