Recombine files into a single file, using terminal? (or other)

Hi all
I have some files that are really one file, but are split into multiple parts as they're coming from a FAT drive. I know in Windows you can do something such as
copy /b file.ext.* file.ext
Is there something similar on the Mac side?

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