How do I use the OS X Terminal command split
to split a file into several pieces, and store them in a different folder, on a different drive?
The reason is that I need to move files to a FAT32 store, but they are too large for the FAT32 4 GB file size constraint.
Also, I don't have enough space left on my HFS+ drive to split it there, and then move it.
Any ideas?
Best Answer
If Mac OS X's
split
acts just like the GNU Coreutilssplit
,cd
to the directory you wish the split files to reside in and then run the following command: