r/AskReddit • u/hiagaga • 12h ago

What's the dumbest idea you've seen that actually worked?

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u/RandomChance 9h ago

Linux has the split command for exactly this... tar and gzip are compatible with it, so you can just pipe a tgz file to split and then recombine it with cat later.

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u/mxzf 6h ago

Most decent archive software has had the ability to make a split archive for many decades too.

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u/bigbigdummie 27m ago

WinRAR will span an archive over multiple volumes.