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MAC OS X: How to split large file into pieces?

OS X includes a command line tool called split. See man split or https://ss64.com/osx/split.html for all the details.

You can call split using the Terminal.app and the command:

split -b 5m bigfish.txt
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To split text, use web tool: https://qit.tools/text/split/.

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