Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:24:31 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to copy just part of a file? Message-ID: <20030717012430.GD44980@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3F15F2EC.7050104@mac.com> References: <20030717004419.GA91784@mail.hitmedia.com> <3F15F2EC.7050104@mac.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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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