split piped input ..or.. capture to split output

[Phill Rogers]

Hi what a great utility! I've just tested it for replacing the OEM's "recovery" image on a new PC.
After a new PC goes through the out-of-box experience, you then remove all the trialware & configure it the way you like it, followed by hours of updates & reboots, and finally a clean-up, av-scan & defrag. That's the point at which I've just taken a new wim image to replace the hidden one. Worked fine.
But it needed 2 passes to create then split the image, thus you need twice the amount of spare space before overwriting the original OEM image (three swm files).
I tried piping the capture command to the split command but split doesn't take piped input. So it would be good if it could. Or even better if you could capture directly to split files.

[synchronicity]

Hi,

You're correct that currently the only way to create a split WIM is to split a standalone WIM file. This of course means that creating a split WIM may be a 2 step process.

This limitation could be avoided if the WIM writing code supported split WIMs directly, rather than having separate code to handle splitting. Then it would be possible to capture a split WIM directly, among other things. I've considered doing this in the past but never have gotten around to it. I may give it a fresh look sometime.

By the way, are you sure you even need a split WIM? Perhaps a standalone WIM would suffice.