Re: [TCLUG:5477] Cat and a few other questions...

[Hans Davin Umhoefer <spudling@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

Michael Hicks wrote:
> > 1.  I have 4 .wav files, lets say   a.wav, b.wav, c.wav, & d.wav.  I
> > want to cat them together to form e.wav.  Does anyone know the correct
> > way to accomplish this.  I looked at man cat and cat --help but was a
> > little lost on the actual command.
> 
> cat-ing the files together probably won't work -- they would all have different
> headers (I think).  Most likely, a player would still only play the first sound
> of the four..  

Cating them together should work fine. I've done this with mp3s.

You should be able to run 

cat a.wav b.wav c.wav d.wav > e.wav

as long as you don't mind e.wav being overwritten.

Hans

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Hans D Umhoefer (spudling@acm.cs.umn.edu)