GFCOMBINE(1)

📦 version 2.0.0, in arch rolling, debian bookworm, debian trixie, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 GFCOMBINE(1) — the UserCommands era 💖

okay bestie, so you know how gfsplit chops a file into a whole lil squad of shares? this is the glow-up reunion episode. gfcombine is the tool that gets the band back together and reconstructs the original file. it lives in the UserCommands section of the manual and honestly? she's doing the most with the least. periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gfcombine [-o OUTPUTFILE] INPUTFILE...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the vibe is: you've got a bunch of files (the ones gfsplit made for you, no cap) and you want the original file back. gfcombine does that by interpolating the shares that you hand it on the command line. it's giving math girlie and we're obsessed. 🧚

  • -o OUTPUTFILE — the name of the file to write out. like, where do you want the reconstructed treasure to land? tell her here.

here's the thing though, the INPUTFILEs all have to be named something.NNN where the .NNN is the share number. 🔢 (don't stress — gfsplit already names its output files correctly, so if you used her you're fine, iykyk.)

and if you omit the OUTPUTFILE? no biggie. it just defaults to the name of the first INPUTFILE with the .NNN chopped off. so secrets.txt.001, secrets.txt.002, etc. — you just get secrets.txt back. iconic behaviour tbh. 🎀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Daniel Silverstone. (the founding mother of this whole situation, we stan 🫶)

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

found a bug? not the vibe. report it against the libgfshare product on www.launchpad.net. go off, bestie. 🐛

Copyright © 2006 Daniel Silverstone.

This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the MIT licence (the COPYRIGHT file in the source distribution).

⚠️ There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. fr fr. 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • gfsplit(1) — the one who started all this 💔
  • libgfshare(3) — the brain behind the operation
  • gfshare(7) — the whole lore

and that's the tea, bestie — that was version 2.0.0, dated February 2006, and it's still out here combining shares like the main character she is. go reconstruct something beautiful. 🌈💖✨

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