{"id":4176,"date":"2024-03-13T08:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T08:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-shell-achieve-splitting-and-renaming-large-files\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T04:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:20:24","slug":"how-can-shell-achieve-splitting-and-renaming-large-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-shell-achieve-splitting-and-renaming-large-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Split &#038; Rename Large Files in Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To split and rename large files in a shell, the following commands can be used:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-built_in\">split<\/span> -b 100M inputfile outputfile\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>-b 100M indicates that the inputfile will be split into separate output files every 100MB, and the output files will be named as outputfileaa, outputfileab, outputfileac, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>If you need to rename the split files, you can use the mv command, for example:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-built_in\">mv<\/span> outputfileaa newname1\r\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">mv<\/span> outputfileab newname2\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this way, you can rename the split files as newname1, newname2, and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To split and rename large files in a shell, the following commands can be used: split -b 100M inputfile outputfile -b 100M indicates that the inputfile will be split into separate output files every 100MB, and the output files will be named as outputfileaa, outputfileab, outputfileac, and so on. 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