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How to merge two files into one

by tnk on Oct.08, 2008, under Computers, Software

Recently I had faced a  problem of merging two binary files together.For some very strange reason DELL has decided that the iso images of the bootable cd for their servers (4GB) will be split into 400MB files… well if you want to burn this image you have to merge them somehow. Well at firs I was thinking of some program doing the work for me but after some surfing I stumbled upon some recommendations that it is a good idea actually use cp or cat commands (depends on what environment you are into).
So after some searching and testing here are the results:

For linux environment

cat *.ext > completefile.iso

or if you need to specify the files eactly the syntax is siple

cat filepart1.ext filepart2.ext filepart3.ext > completefile.iso

For windows environment (use in command prompt):

copy /B “C:\part1.ext” + “C:\part2.ext” + “C:\part3.ext” “C:\complefile.iso”

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