Re: [SoX-users] Reading a broken WAV file?

[Rafal M. <rz...@ic...>]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 08:23:24PM +0000, Michael Chapman wrote:
> This is OT for SoX, but as the thread has discussed the difficulty of moving
> large (>4GB files) arround on USB-sticks, I thought I would report one
> apparent (I still have to try it!) solution.
> One can use:
> tar -c -M --tape-length XXX [etc]
> to create multiple *.tar files each (or each but the last!) of length XXX 
> times 1024 bytes.
> These can then be moved arround.
> Then re-assembled:
> tar -x -M [etc]
> see <http://paulbradley.tv/44/> (or google for 'tar "tape-length" ').
> Apologies off-topic, but it seems irresponsible to have discussed the problem 
> without then reporting a solution.

Easier solution is to use
	split -b BYTES FILE
to split and
	cat FILE.* > FILE
to join.

R.
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