[paranoia] splitting sound files?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Wolfgang,

> > If your head and tail prefer text files then use dd(1).
> >
> >     dd if=big.raw of=part0.raw bs=1024k skip=0 count=1
> >     dd if=big.raw of=part1.raw bs=1024k skip=1 count=1
> >     dd if=big.raw of=part2.raw bs=1024k skip=2 count=1
> >     ...
> 
> This can get SLOW for large values of skip, since (at least some
> versions of) dd read through the whole 'skip' part instead of
> skipping to the part that matters.

True, the number of reads is O(n**2), but if N is relatively small that
doesn't matter.  Unfortunately, it doesn't help the original questioner
since it turned out they wanted a `small amount of disc space' solution
for which a `slice the end off and truncate' method is better.

> But then there's always 'man split'.

And just as for some versions of dd(1), some versions of split(1) don't
work on non-text files.  :-(

Ralph.

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