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Running linux commands in the background

Use ‘&’ to make a copy command like ‘cp A B’, complete in the background. So you’d run ‘cp A B&’

Transferring HUGE files

by compressing, splitting, transferring, recombining and decompressing

Compress and split into 70Mbyte chucks

tar -zcvf - <stuff to put in archive> | split --bytes=70m --suffix-length=4 --numeric-suffix - myarchive.tar.gz

recombine and decompress

cat myarchive.tar.* | tar -zxvf -

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