Combine Split Files in Windows

Posted in Code, Computers & Technology, Microsoft by Elliott Back on March 10th, 2007.

I recently ran into an issue where I had about 7.5 GB of files split into 512M chunks downloaded from linux machine. The files had been generated using the split command:

split -b 512m files.tgz

This created the following files:

-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 536870912 Mar 9 20:44 xaa
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 536870912 Mar 9 20:46 xab
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 536870912 Mar 9 20:49 xac
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 536870912 Mar 9 20:51 xad
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 536870912 Mar 9 20:53 xae
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 536870912 Mar 9 20:55 xaf
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 536870912 Mar 9 20:57 xag
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 536870912 Mar 9 20:59 xah
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 536870912 Mar 9 21:01 xai
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 536870912 Mar 9 21:03 xaj
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 536870912 Mar 9 21:05 xak
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 536870912 Mar 9 21:07 xal
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 536870912 Mar 9 21:09 xam
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 536870912 Mar 9 21:12 xan
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 222082405 Mar 9 21:13 xao

I wanted to combine them in windows and looked around for a while until I realized you can use Microsoft’s copy utility in binary mode!

copy /b xa* files.tgz /b

Now I’m all done! Hurray for built-in utilities.

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