[clug] Cut a file in place.

[Andrew Janke]

Hi Paul,

Further context...  28Gb .tar.gz file, 16Gb left on my laptop, had to get
said 28Gb file to a colleague in Canada. No chance of sing SSH/Rsync. 28Gb
upload to any web transfer mechanism was going to go wonky. Thus split into
bits, get to him in bits, get him to run cat to put it back together.  Yes,
a perfect use of a split archive, but then I didn't make the archive.

I used a variation of the script that Alastair sent with truncate and it
seems to have worked. Happy user in Canada.

a


On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 05:09, Paul Wayper via linux <linux at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> On 17/9/19 9:31 am, Andrew Janke via linux wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Let's say I have a 26GB compressed archive and 17GB of spare disk space
> and
> > want to cut it up into chunks. The internet says no, but this list
> > typically doesn't fail me.
>
> What are you doing with these chunks?  Why do you need it in chunks?  An
> archive in chunks is useless; so how is it going to be used?
>
> It sounds like we're being given an X-Y problem.  You're not telling us the
> whole project, you've decided to X, you don't know how to do X but you
> think
> it can be done by doing Y, you don't know how to do Y, so you ask us how
> to do Y.
>
> Specifically, it sounds like you're trying to do the second example in:
>
> https://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem
>
> HTH,
>
> Paul
>
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