How to split file & restore in Linux?

To split a file:

split -b200m book.rar book-split 

Here 200m is 200 MegaByte

book.rar is the source file to be splitted.

and book-split is prefix of generated file.

To restore the file:

cat book-split* > NEWFILENAME

Source:

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/usplit.htm

http://www.techiecorner.com/107/how-to-split-large-file-into-several-smaller-files-linux/

Tags: Linux, Shell, unix