Splitting and combining files

- [Instructor] Files are really just a bunch of bits.…So if we need to, we can slice and dice a file…into various parts and put them back together again.…Splitting a file might be necessary to store it on…a few devices that might not be able to hold the full thing.…Or to make individual smaller pieces available…for download, or something like that.…To split a file, we use the command split.…Here in my Pictures folder, I have a picture of a cat.…Let's split it into a few pieces…and put it back together again.…

He looks surprised, but it won't hurt.…Here in the terminal, I'll use the command split…and then specify -b.…This tells split to divide the file by bytes.…And I'll tell split to split…this file into one megabyte chunks.…Then I'll use -d, which appends decimal numbers,…instead of strings to the end…of each of the parts' file names.…Then I'll provide the file to split, cat.jpg.…And I'll provide a template for how to name the parts.…

In this case, we'll call them cat.jpg.part.…And then because of the -d option,…