how to separate tar.gz file to 5 files

Question

we have huge file as

du -sh *

7.7G    HDP-2.6.5.0-centos7-rpm.tar.gz

and we want to separate the file to 5 files as

HDP1
HDP2
HDP3
HDP4
HDP5

and later I want to revert all HDP* to HDP-2.6.5.0-centos7-rpm.tar.gz

how to separate the file - HDP-2.6.5.0-centos7-rpm.tar.gz to 5 files ?

the aim of this task is to transfer the files by network because if we transfer file that more then 5G , then we faced transferring problem

Look at the linked answers and split -n if you want a specific number of files rather than a maximum size. — Stephen Kitt, Jul 02 '19 at 13:10

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '19 at 13:08

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You want to look at the split command.

answered Jul 02 '19 at 13:08

John

my example - split -b 1000M HDP-2.6.5.0-centos7-rpm.tar.gz "HDP" , please add it to your answer – yael Jul 02 '19 at 13:37

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