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How do I split a .zip file into multiple segments?

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Mar 15, 2026170163 views
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Problem

I have all the command line utils installed, and need to split an existing (or) new file(s) into (50MB) segments in Terminal. i.e. Folder X = 900MB > Create self extracting archive > Split archive into 50MB Segments (i.e. ) According to the man page here are the commands: with I get: .....

Error Output

Copyright (c) 1990-2008 Info-ZIP - Type 'zip "-L"' for software license.
Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008). Usage:
zip [-options] [-b path] [-t mmddyyyy] [-n suffixes] [zipfile list] [-xi list]
  The default action is to add or replace zipfile entries from list, which
  can include the special name - to comp…

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You have but want to split it into sized parts. will create To extract them, unzip: you should first collect the files together and run , to recreate your . Then you can simply . 7z: you can also You'd expect would work, but unfortunately it's not implemented and in my tests, concatenating the parts as it suggests, i.e. with cat, and running unzip, failed to extract all my files.

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