How to Split Large ‘tar’ Archive into Multiple Files of Certain Size

Are you worried of transferring or uploading large files over a network, then worry no more, because you can move your files in bits to deal with slow network speeds by splitting them into blocks of a given size.

In this how-to guide, we shall briefly explore the creation of archive files and splitting them into blocks of a selected size. We shall use tar, one of the most popular archiving utilities on Linux and also take advantage of the split utility to help us break our archive files into small bits.

Create and Split tar into Multiple Files or Parts in Linux

Before we move further, let us take note of, how these utilities can be used, the general syntax of a tar and split command is as follows:

# tar options archive-name files 
# split options file "prefix”

Let us now delve into a few examples to illustrate the main concept of this article.

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