how to merge files from splitting

[hokky]

Hi guys,

quick question about merging

I have split my data into 1KB/piece and I want to merge it back as original.

How do I do that ?

Here's the command I merge

split -b1000 data.tar.gz -a3 data.tar.gz

Thanks guys

 

[sbrews]

have never used split myself, but I would bet you could:

merge <options> new_file old_file1 old_file2

or something very similar.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Is called concatenating and can be done with the [tt]cat[/tt] command :

cat old_file1 old_file2 > new_file

[gray]# or[/gray]

cat old_file* > new_file

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[sbrews]

Doh! :~/ didnt even think about "cat". There is (at least according to google) a merge command.

...

you can do this too:

cat old_file1 >> old_file2

downside to the above - you no longer have the "original" old_file2.

 

[sbrews]

Never post before coffee...

above should be

cat old_file2 >> old_file1

otherwise files are appended in the wrong order (unless of course you really want that. :-> )