I don't see why not. Following is one possible way. This should break up your 8 GB file into 512 MB files 1 MB at a time. It's untested as I don't have an 8 GB file handy, but should give you the idea. 

my $filename = 'foo';
my $bufferSize = 1,000,000;
my $outFileSize = 512;

open (IN, $filename);
binmode IN;
seek (IN, 0, 0);

my $buffer;
my $i = 1;
my $j = 1;
open (OUT, "$filename$i");

while (read (IN, $buffer, $bufferSize)){

    if ($j > $outFileSize){

        $j = 1;
        $i++;
        close OUT;
        open (OUT, "$filename$i");

    }

    print OUT $buffer;
    $j++;

}

close OUT;

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UPDATE: No I don't manufacture hard drives, so as Fletch correctly points out, $bufferSize should be 1048567 bytes. Oh, and leave out the commas.

In reply to Re: splitting a file by hangon
in thread splitting a file by boby

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