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Old September 10th, 2010, 02:38 PM   #30
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Can I offer a bit of advice on joining split files for Linux and Mac users?

It's actually very easy, no special software required provided you don't mind using a bit of command-line magic. Everything you need is built in.

Let's say you have three files in your Downloads folder that need to be joined, mystuff.rar.001, mystuff.rar.002 and mystuff.rar.003.

Open a terminal, and in it type:

Code:
cd ~/Downloads
Then use the 'cat' command to paste the three files to a new, joined file called 'mystuff.rar' like this:

Code:
cat mystuff.rar.001 mystuff.rar.002 mystuff.rar.003 > mystuff.rar
If, as in this case, the files are numbered and in order, you can use a wildcard like this in place of that last step:

Code:
cat mystuff.rar.* > mystuff.rar
.. which does exactly the same thing.

Note that on a Mac, for Safari users at least, the usual download location is the Desktop - so as the first step above, you would do:

Code:
cd ~/Desktop
Hope this is useful.
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