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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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In the last episode (Jul 16), Chuck Swiger said:
> BSD baby wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > Though I found a scripting way to do it with PHP, I'm wondering if
> > there's a more direct way to do it with basic GNU/BSD commands.
> 
> GNU split will take options related to size/byte counts, rather than
> just ASCII lines.

... as will any other POSIX-conforming split, including FreeBSD's.  But
you need more than that because wav files have a header that you'll
have to duplicate onto each output file.  You can use the sox port to
convert the wav file into a raw pcm file that can be split up, then
convert the pieces back to wavs with sox again.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com