---
title: "split files"
date: 2021-06-13T08:31:03+02:00
draft: false
snippet_types:
- split
---

To prevent upload errors to S3 Glacier I keep my files ~500mb. So larger ones must be split.

```shell
$ split -b 500mb example.txt example.txt.part
```

[perl script example](https://paste.sr.ht/~travisshears/1327a69aea4e86e17894aeec9e16011338280b8a)