This works much better :)

This splits the file into 2gb chunks, I have tested on about 25-30 iso's is have stored on my PC and it works great, though sometimes writing performance is a little bit slow. You can also change how many gb's you want to split it into by changing the iterator's value. 
use strict;
use warnings;

files();

sub files {
    foreach (@ARGV) {

        print "processing $_\n";

        open my $fh, '<', $_ || die "cannot open $_ $!";
        binmode($fh);

        my $num      = '000';
        my $iterator = 0;

        split_file( $fh, $num, $_, $iterator );

    }
}

sub split_file {

    my ( $fh, $num, $name, $iterator ) = @_;

        my $split_fh = "$name" . '.split';

        open( my $out_file, '>', $split_fh . $num ) || die "cannot ope
+n $split_fh$num $!";
        binmode($out_file);
        
            while (1) {
                
                $iterator++;
                my $buf;
                read( $fh, $buf, 32 );
                print( $out_file $buf );
                my $len = length $buf;

                if ( $iterator == 67108864 ) {    #split into 2gb chun
+ks
                    
                    $iterator = 0;
                    $num++;
                    split_file( $fh, $num, $name );

                }
                elsif ( $len !~ "32" ) {
                last;
        }
    }
}

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Works pretty quickly! split almost 5gb in 4.4333 mins. I do see a decrease in performance sometimes, though other times it writes very quickly. Go ahead and test it on one of your iso's. What would be the most efficient read/write buffer?

In reply to Re^2: How to split big files with Perl ? by james28909
in thread How to split big files with Perl ? by zalezny

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