Split or Join Files in GNU/Linux

This post will explain to you, how to split or join .001, .002, .003 etc. files.

First, to split or merge these kind of files, you need to install a package called lxsplit. For that, type

apt-get install lxsplit

Join files

lxsplit -j filename.001

Note: filename.001 should be the name of the first file including extension.

Split a file into pieces

lxsplit -s hugefile 15M

hugefile should be the name of the file with extension and next option should be the size of the each file after splitting. M denotes MB and other split size examples are 5000k, 30000000b.