[MPlayer-users] [Mp-users] How to extract a .WAV file from part of a very long dump file

[mtlagm at gmail.com]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Martin McCormick wrote:

> 	I thought I might use sox to skip over the part of the
> file that wasn't worth saving and grab the little part that was,
> but a 20-gig file is too large for sox which complains about the
> size and aborts.

sox should accept the WAV on standard input:

    The input and output files may be read from standard in
    and out.  This is done by specifying '-' as the filename.

This should relax the problem of file size on sox side.
Should cat accept files this long you, can cat the file to
sox input. :)

Mihai