diff --git a/scripts/release_cleaver.sh b/scripts/release_cleaver.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Copyright (c) 2024 Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC.  All rights reserved.
+
+if [ -z "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
+  echo "Wrong interpreter, please run \"$0\" with bash"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if ! (type basename && type sha256sum && type split && type cat) > /dev/null; then
+  echo "${BASH_SOURCE[0]} requires split, cat, and sha256sum" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+set -euo pipefail
+ENCODING="utf-8"
+
+function base () { echo "${1%.*}" ; }
+function ext () { echo "${1##*.}" ; }
+
+if (( "$#" <= 0 )); then
+  # output script usage, used for splitting or joining release files
+  echo "Usage:" >&2
+  echo "  $(basename "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}") <file_to_split>" >&2
+  echo "OR" >&2
+  echo "  $(basename "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}") <file_to_join.00> <file_to_join.01> ... <file_to_join.sha>" >&2
+  exit 1
+
+elif (( "$#" > 1 )); then
+  # more than one file specified to join (should be .00, .01, .02, etc., and .sha)
+  echo "Joining..." >&2
+
+  # the part before the file extension needs to match for all files provided, otherwise bail
+  PREV_BASE=
+  for FILE in "$@"; do
+    CURR_BASE="$(base "$(basename "${FILE}")")"
+    if [[ ! -f "${FILE}" ]]; then
+      echo "\"${FILE}\" does not exist" >&2
+      exit 1
+    elif [[ -n "${PREV_BASE}" ]] && [[ "${PREV_BASE}" != "${CURR_BASE}" ]]; then
+      echo "File basenames (\"${PREV_BASE}\" and \"${CURR_BASE}\") do not match, giving up" >&2
+      exit 1
+    else
+      PREV_BASE="${CURR_BASE}"
+    fi
+  done
+
+  # only proceed if we know what we're going to join to and that target doesn't already exist
+  OUT_FILE="${PREV_BASE}"
+  if [[ -n "${OUT_FILE}" ]] && [[ ! -f "${OUT_FILE}" ]]; then
+
+    # loop over the input files, make note of the .sha file and cat the rest
+    > "${OUT_FILE}"
+    SHA_FILE=
+    for FILE in "$@"; do
+      EXT="$(ext "${FILE}")"
+      if [[ "${EXT}" == "sha" ]]; then
+        SHA_FILE="$FILE"
+      else
+        cat "${FILE}" >> "${OUT_FILE}"
+      fi
+    done
+
+    if [[ ! -f "${OUT_FILE}" ]]; then
+      # file was not created
+      echo "Attempted to join files to ${OUT_FILE}, but could not create the file" >&2
+      exit 1
+
+    elif [[ ! -s "${OUT_FILE}" ]]; then
+      # file was created but it's empty
+      echo "Attempted to join files to ${OUT_FILE}, but an empty file resulted" >&2
+      exit 1
+
+    elif [[ -z "${SHA_FILE}" ]] || [[ ! -f "${SHA_FILE}" ]]; then
+      echo "Files joined to ${OUT_FILE}, but could not verify file integrity" >&2
+      exit 1
+
+    else
+      # file was created, is non empty, and sha file exists, verify its integrity
+      sha256sum --check "${SHA_FILE}"
+    fi
+
+  elif [[ -n "${OUT_FILE}" ]]; then
+    echo "Output file \"${OUT_FILE}\" already exists" >&2
+    exit 1
+
+  else
+    echo "Could not determine output filename" >&2
+    exit 1
+  fi
+
+else
+  echo "Splitting..." >&2
+  SHA_FILE="$(basename "${1}").sha"
+  sha256sum --binary "${1}" | head --bytes=64 | tee "${SHA_FILE}"
+  echo "  $(basename "${1}")" | tee --append "${SHA_FILE}"
+  split --suffix-length=2 --bytes=2000000000 --numeric-suffixes=1 "${1}" "$(basename "${1}")."
+fi