Re^3: How to split big files with Perl ?

Well honestly it was like I said, it was purely untested code and was just for an example. I did not intend on it being a copy and paste example. All this does is reads the file then makes another file on the fly appending 001++ to it, thats all. ~~I will however revise it and make any corrections so user can copy and paste it.~~
I stand corrected, it will take more than what i posted to be able to split it up. What I was considering was takeing a 10gb file, and split it into exactly 4gb chunks. I think that would require to read 1 byte at a time, and write the buf to outfile until a counter reaches the 4gb limit. That way it is not filling the memory with all this data at one time and would work smoothly. Ill see what i can cook up.

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Re^4: How to split big files with Perl ? by ww (Archbishop) on Dec 26, 2014 at 19:11 UTC
So perhaps you should adopt a policy of testing before posting? /me thinks so. check Ln42!	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: How to split big files with Perl ? by LanX (Saint) on Dec 26, 2014 at 19:15 UTC
This code has too many obvious issues to be left without comment. Actually too many to be even listed. That's not a bashing - it's a warning for everybody who tries to copy that. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)}	[reply]
Re^4: How to split big files with Perl ? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 26, 2014 at 21:41 UTC
I see you've updated your original node, but haven't marked it as updated. Please don't do that since now some of the replies don't make sense anymore, see here. This is still not correct: `my $split_fh = $fh . 'split'; #creates 'filename.split'` - don't use `$fh`, the filehandle, use a variable containing the filename here. Also `print $out_file, $buf;` - remove the comma. Reading the file one byte at a time is a slightly better approach than 2GB at a time, but probably still not very efficient - a buffer size of at least a few kilobytes will probably get you better performance.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: How to split big files with Perl ? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 26, 2014 at 19:17 UTC
Pseudocode is fine to demonstrate a concept, unfortunately, your concept needs some improvements to be practical, as mentioned above. I will however revise it and make any corrections so user can copy and paste it. I think that is an excellent exercise!	[reply]
Re^5: How to split big files with Perl ? by james28909 (Deacon) on Dec 26, 2014 at 19:29 UTC
Even revising it to "working state" produces errors as well. I wrote it very quickly as just an example anyway. Most of the code i post i do not plan on anybody using in their code, if anything it was just an example.	[reply]
Re^6: How to split big files with Perl ? by GotToBTru (Prior) on Dec 27, 2014 at 03:23 UTC
You've been around here long enough. Consider your audience. The OP supposedly did a Google search on how to split a large file into parts and somehow missed the Unix `split` command. You only said your code was untested; more needed to be said to counter that level of cluelessness. 1 Peter 4:10	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: How to split big files with Perl ? by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 26, 2014 at 21:35 UTC
"Most of the code i post i do not plan on anybody using in their code" How are others supposed to know this? Perhaps a signature to reflect your position on this matter would be wise.	[reply]