Splitting a file using java

Question

I have a 4Gb file.

path = "D:\Try\FourGBFile.txt"

Say,

File file = new File(path);

I wanna split the contents of this file into 4 files. How would i do it?

see this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11180078/split-file-java-linux — Jason, Feb 25 '13 at 08:51
@Jason: The link tagged as Java but its answer is linux script not Java. — masoud, Feb 25 '13 at 08:53
@MM. See under best answer : http://stackoverflow.com/a/11180527/1260702 — Jason, Feb 25 '13 at 08:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 04 '14 at 09:00

Get the length of the file:
```
long len = file.length();
```
Open a FileInputStream to your source file
Open as many FileOutputStream as you want/need
Write each part of the file by reading from the input stream and writing to the respective output stream, using the length of the file

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