if it is a text file you could just do something like: cat file.fragment >> file At least I think that would work for appending the data. > Can you help me out? > > How are you splitting your files, I am in need of away to take a large plain > text database report and break it up into small pieces. > OK, I can split up the file just fine.. How do I put it back > together.. The man page for split sucks.. The info page isn't much > better.