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Although one of the primary reasons behind creating archives is the ease of handling and transfer, sometimes the compressed file itself is so large that it becomes a nightmare to transfer it over network, especially when the network speed is slow. So, what should be done in cases like these? Is there a solution to this problem? Well, yes - one solution is to split the compressed file into smaller bits, that can easily be transferred over network. At destination, you can join them back to get the original archive.
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Before the internet my boss logged in remotely by modem to a Xenix machine. The customer wanted a database in smaller chunks. He used the split command but messed-up and converted it into hundreds of thousands of 9 byte chunks! At that time, when the split utility ran out of keyboard characters it started to use the ASCII character set resulting in very strangely named files. AFAIR it took him about five hours to undo the damage. (If you're reading, Hi C!)
Maybe you could edit the article to show if the original file is untouched or not.
ok its really nice information and so useful
The downside of using the `split` utility is that the parts are not usable without recombining it. If you want usable smaller tar archives of approximately equal size, it is better to use the `tarsplitter` utility:https://github.com/AQUAOSOTech/tarsplitter