Create Multipart Zip & Unzip Multipart
Need to transfer or send a file zip but transfer media limit the size file? Create a multipart file using split command and join the file on receiver host.
Create a file zip.
$ zip SWhite.zip S.white-TKTlqehU_ro.mp4
$ ls -lha
total 675744
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 faizarseptiawan 160B Oct 19 00:28 .
drwx------@ 15 faizarseptiawan 480B Oct 19 00:00 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 faizarseptiawan 165M Jun 23 04:11 S.white-TKTlqehU_ro.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 faizarseptiawan 165M Oct 19 00:28 SWhite.zip
Create a multipart file using split command.
$ # split -b maxSize filename outputPrefix
$ split -b 50m SWhite.zip SWhite-
$ ls -lha
total 1013464
drwxr-xr-x@ 9 faizarseptiawan 288B Oct 19 00:29 .
drwx------@ 15 faizarseptiawan 480B Oct 19 00:00 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 faizarseptiawan 165M Jun 23 04:11 S.white-TKTlqehU_ro.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 faizarseptiawan 50M Oct 19 00:29 SWhite-aa
-rw-r--r-- 1 faizarseptiawan 50M Oct 19 00:29 SWhite-ab
-rw-r--r-- 1 faizarseptiawan 50M Oct 19 00:29 SWhite-ac
-rw-r--r-- 1 faizarseptiawan 15M Oct 19 00:29 SWhite-ad
-rw-r--r-- 1 faizarseptiawan 165M Oct 19 00:28 SWhite.zip
Join the file.
$ mkdir SWhite && mv SWhite-a* SWhite && cd SWhite
$ cat SWhite-* > SWhite.zip
$ ls -lha
total 675440
drwxr-xr-x 7 faizarseptiawan 224B Oct 19 00:30 .
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 faizarseptiawan 192B Oct 19 00:29 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 faizarseptiawan 50M Oct 19 00:29 SWhite-aa
-rw-r--r-- 1 faizarseptiawan 50M Oct 19 00:29 SWhite-ab
-rw-r--r-- 1 faizarseptiawan 50M Oct 19 00:29 SWhite-ac
-rw-r--r-- 1 faizarseptiawan 15M Oct 19 00:29 SWhite-ad
-rw-r--r-- 1 faizarseptiawan 165M Oct 19 00:30 SWhite.zip
Make sure the files before split and after merging are still the same.
$ md5 SWhite.zip
MD5 (SWhite.zip) = 4d158057fd3714b62987e3afa2146d51
$ md5 ../SWhite.zip
MD5 (../SWhite.zip) = 4d158057fd3714b62987e3afa2146d51