Unix tool for splitting archives

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Published on 2010-03-29T03:22:42Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 3:33 UTC
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I'm dumping an svn repository to a giant USB disk that is formatted FAT due to necessity (treat this as unchangeable).

It conks out when you try to create a file larger than 4 gb.

I need a tool that I can pipe data to that will create files of arbitrary size that when catted together will be the original file. I can write a tool to do this, but if one already exists I'd rather use it.

Cheers

EDIT: A second look at the split man page looks like it might work.

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