Various people wrote:
Transfering > 2Gb files using a thumb drive is too hard ...


There's always split/cat

It may be inconvienient or unfeasable for very big files, but is simple enough to do.


molly:/molly1 >du -sh bigfile1
4.3G    bigfile1
molly:/molly1 >split -b 1000m bigfile1
molly:/molly1 >cp xaa bigfile2
molly:/molly1 >cat xab >> bigfile2
molly:/molly1 >cat xac >> bigfile2
molly:/molly1 >cat xad >> bigfile2
molly:/molly1 >cat xae >> bigfile2
molly:/molly1 >cmp bigfile[12]
molly:/molly1 >sha1 bigfile[12]
SHA1 (bigfile1) = 895a25403c13b9f5ba64e2460ff898f3593a72e0
SHA1 (bigfile2) = 895a25403c13b9f5ba64e2460ff898f3593a72e0


Finding a windows 'split' utility is an exercise for the reader.


paulm

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