How to divide and join files easily in Windows

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Sometimes we lack the enough space on a device to accommodate large files and we are urgent to be able to take the information to us at any cost. The optimal solution would be to use a compressor that. configured without performing any task, divide the information into fragments of the specified size and add a redundancy code as an extra protection factor.

If we don't want to get involved and seek a simple solution that the operating system itself can offer us, know that with the command itself split imported from Unix and copy Windows this task is very simple. We show you how to divide and join files easily in Windows.

There are many simple commands in Windows that allow us to perform basic tasks in a simple way and without complicating ourselves with the use of third-party tools. Being able to split and join files is one of them, although one simple way and without using CRC codes to verify the integrity of the information we copy.

To be able to divide a file into smaller ones of the size that we specify, we must download the command split, imported from Unix to Windows (today Microsoft has not heard our voices about the need for its own command like this) and go to the command interpreter and enter the following sequence:

split -b = size_in_bytes file.ext new_file.

This will output a certain number of files of the size that we have indicated in bytes and whose extension will vary as new_file.aa, new_file.ab, new_file.ac, etc.

To be able to join a file that has been previously fragmented using the previous method, you can enter the following sequence and wait for all the fragments to be put together in the new file.

copy /b fichero1.ext + fichero2.ext + fichero3.ext nuevofichero.ext

In no case do we advise you to use the command type, such that: type file1.ext file2.ext file3.ext> newfile.ext, since the non-printable characters of the ASCII code can cause errors in your resulting file. And more if there is no verification of the final content.


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