Hello people. This is my first post, be nice with me "Renting" a box somewhere in the US (I am from Greece) I tried to download there first a large file (3.3GB) and from there to my workstation in Greece (thats because I wanted this file quick in a drive that I know that I own... and of course because the box have 40-50mb speed and in Greece I have the ultimate 384kb speed....(...)) Gooood, the download complete in about 30 minutes... And when I tried to download from my server I realised after some ...reading that I cannot download files bigger than 2GB from apache either pureftp that I am running.. And from asking help how to make this possible, I prefer to ask how can I split this file and break it into pieces of eg 500MB and then download them one by one... I tried a script named split-tar but the file that it creates it was the same size with the original one (...). Any suggestions ? ps: Forgive me for my awful stinky english... Thanks in advance, Christos Panagiotakis
Christos, There is a pretty standard Linux utility called split. See "man split" for usage, but what I think you will be looking for is the -b flag to set the size to something like 500MB. split -b 500000000 <filename> Use the "cat" command to reassemble your file once you've downloaded it to your local machine. BTW, Your English is great; nothing to apologize for HTH, Jim
