How to split a big tar files?

How to split a big tar files?

Easy πŸ˜‰
split -b 100000000 thisfile.tar.gz thisfile.tar.gz

This will split your file into 100 MB parts with the thisfile name and suffix of gzaa, gzab, gzac, etc…

Then how to join them?

Easy too πŸ˜‰
cat thisfile.tar.gz?? > thisfile.tar.gz

Until next time πŸ™‚

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