Our servers are running Ubuntu Linux, and the binary file is a BSON dump of a large MongoDB collection. How reliable is a tool like split? Is there a faster or better way to do this?
Ubuntu – the fastest and most reliable way to split a 50GB binary file into chunks of 5GB or less, and then reassemble it later
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Best Answer
To split, split -b
To join, just
cat.AFAIK they are completely reliable, and I doubt there is something more efficient.