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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions How to split the excel file into 3 files randaonly and zip them? Post 302961564 by joeyg on Tuesday 1st of December 2015 09:21:55 AM
Old 12-01-2015
More of an Excel question...

But, why is it so big? That answer will help you determine if the file can be easily broken up.
If it is big because there are so many lines of data, how about
save to a .csv file
then use the unix split command to break into several smaller files (each containing x number of rows)

Then you email file in ten chunks (or however many), and the user appends file 2 to end of file 1, then appends file 3, etc...
 

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zipnote(1)						      General Commands Manual							zipnote(1)

NAME
zipsplit - split a zipfile into smaller zipfiles SYNOPSIS
zipsplit [-t] [-i] [-p] [-s] [-n size] [-r room] [-b path] [-h] [-v] [-L] zipfile ARGUMENTS
zipfile Zipfile to split. OPTIONS
-t Report how many files it will take, but don't make them. -i Make index (zipsplit.idx) and count its size against first zip file. -n size Make zip files no larger than "size" (default = 36000). -r room Leave room for "room" bytes on the first disk (default = 0). -b path Use path for the output zip files. -p Pause between output zip files. -s Do a sequential split even if it takes more zip files. -h Show a short help. -v Show version information. -L Show software license. DESCRIPTION
zipsplit reads a zipfile and splits it into smaller zipfiles. EXAMPLES
To be filled in. BUGS
Does not yet support large (> 2 GB) or split archives. SEE ALSO
zip(1), unzip(1) AUTHOR
Info-ZIP v3.0 of 8 May 2008 zipnote(1)
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