Alex needs to email the last 500 MB of logs to the senior developer for analysis. But the company email server rejects attachments larger than 25 MB. Also, Alex’s own text editor crashes when trying to open the file directly.
Here’s a helpful, practical story about using the split command in Linux. The Log File That Grew Too Large linux split file
So Alex uses :
A junior system administrator who just got paged at 2 AM. A critical application server had an issue, and it generated a massive log file: app_error.log . The file is 8 GB in size. Alex needs to email the last 500 MB
