WIMJOIN(1)

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version 1.14.5 · 4 versions
, in arch rolling, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 WIMJOIN(1) — like, the join-a-split-WIM manual, bestie 💖

okay so real talk, this is wimjoin from the User Commands crew, and she's here to help you glue a split WIM back together. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

wimjoin — join a split WIM into a standalone WIM 🧩➡️🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wimjoin [OPTION...] OUT_WIMFILE SPLIT_WIM_PART...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so wimjoin — which is literally the same thing as wimlib-imagex join, they're twins fr fr — takes all those SPLIT_WIM_PARTs and smooshes them into one standalone (one-part) WIM called OUT_WIMFILE. 💅

you have to specify every single part of the split WIM. like, all of them. no skipping. and honestly bestie, you probably wanna do that with a shell wildcard so you don't have to type them all out, because typing them all out is giving ✨suffering✨.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --check — when it's reading each SPLIT_WIM_PART, it verifies that part's integrity if the part has extra integrity information. and on top of that, it writes extra integrity info into OUT_WIMFILE too — even if the split parts didn't have that info in the first place. so: verify + include. 👑
  • --include-integrity — puts extra integrity information into OUT_WIMFILE, i.e. it's like --check but it does not also verify the split WIM parts beforehand. so it's the "just include it, no vibe check first" option. 🙈

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

say you've got a split WIM with parts named windows*.swm, where the * is anything (usually the number of the part — except for the first part, which might have no number at all). you wanna write the joined WIM out to the file windows.wim. easy:

wimjoin windows.wim windows*.swm

and that's it. iconic. ⭐

👑 NOTES 👑

both non-pipable and pipable split WIMs may be joined. yes, both. equal opportunity joining. 🫶

and like, wimjoin is roughly equivalent to this:

wimexport SWM_PART_1 --ref="SWM_GLOB" all OUT_WIMFILE

so if you ever wondered what's going on under the hood — that. iykyk. 🔥

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

wimlib-imagex(1) wimexport(1) wimsplit(1)

bestie if you're splitting and re-joining WIMs for fun, you are genuinely unhinged and i respect it so much 💖

okay that's the whole thing! this page is from wimlib 1.14.5, dated January 2026 🌸 mwah, go join ur WIMs, you've got this 🎀✨💅

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