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Date:      Fri, 8 Aug 2008 03:35:06 -0500
From:      Denny White <dennyboy@cableone.net>
To:        beni <beni@brinckman.info>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: joining 2 files together ?
Message-ID:  <20080808083506.GB13404@bubbhasbox.cableone.net>
In-Reply-To: <200808071534.29383.beni@brinckman.info>
References:  <200808071534.29383.beni@brinckman.info>

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Quoted from beni on Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 03:34:28PM +0000,:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to find the equivalent for the old dos "copy file1+file2" command
> ("copy myfile1.txt+myfile2.txt" copies the contents in myfile2.txt and 
> combines it with the contents in myfile1.txt).
> But the standard freebsd "cp" doesn't seem to want the "+" between the two 
> files :
> 
> bsdaddict# cp file1.avi+file2.avi
> usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpv] source_file target_file
>        cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpv] source_file ... 
> target_directory
> bsdaddict#    
> 
> So how to I append file2 at the end of file1 to get only one file ? To be more 
> specific : I would like to merge 2 avi files into one. How do I get 
> file1.avi+file2.avi into file3.avi ?
> Thanks.
> -- 
> Beni.

After joining avi files with "cat," use mencoder to rebuild the index:

mencoder -forceidx -oac copy -ovc copy infile.avi -o outfile.avi 


Denny White

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