Split files using tar, gz, zip, or bzip2 [closed]

Answer 1

Tested code, initially creates a single archive file, then splits it:

 gzip -c file.orig > file.gz
 CHUNKSIZE=1073741824
 PARTCNT=$[$(stat -c%s file.gz) / $CHUNKSIZE]

 # the remainder is taken care of, for example for
 # 1 GiB + 1 bytes PARTCNT is 1 and seq 0 $PARTCNT covers
 # all of file
 for n in `seq 0 $PARTCNT`
 do
       dd if=file.gz of=part.$n bs=$CHUNKSIZE skip=$n count=1
 done

This variant omits creating a single archive file and goes straight to creating parts:

gzip -c file.orig |
    ( CHUNKSIZE=1073741824;
        i=0;
        while true; do
            i=$[i+1];
            head -c "$CHUNKSIZE" > "part.$i";
            [ "$CHUNKSIZE" -eq $(stat -c%s "part.$i") ] || break;
        done; )

In this variant, if the archive's file size is divisible by $CHUNKSIZE, then the last partial file will have file size 0 bytes.