dirsplitter

Split large directories into parts of a specified maximum size. This is a nim port of my dirsplitter tool.

Go version (more binaries available)
F# Version
Crystal Version

How to build:

• Clone this git repo
• Install nim : https://nim-lang.org/install.html
• cd into directory and compile with:

nim c -d:release dirsplitter.nim

Or download the prebuild binary(linux 64bit only) from: https://github.com/jinyus/nim_dirsplitter/releases

Usage:
   dirsplitter COMMAND

Commands:

  split            Split directories into a specified maximum size
  reverse          Opposite of the main function, moves all files in part folders to the root

Options:
  -h, --help

SPLIT USAGE:

Splits directory into a specified maximum size

Usage:
dirsplitter split [options] 

Options:
-h, --help
-d, --dir=DIR              Target directory (default: .)
-m, --max=MAX              Max part size in GB (default: 5.0)
-p, --prefix=PREFIX        Prefix for output files of the tar command. eg: myprefix.part1.tar (default: )

example:

dirsplitter split --dir ./mylarge2GBdirectory --max 0.5

This will yield the following directory structure:

📂mylarge2GBdirectory
 |- 📂part1
 |- 📂part2
 |- 📂part3
 |- 📂part4

with each part being a maximum of 500MB in size.

Undo splitting

dirsplitter reverse --dir ./mylarge2GBdirectory