Yeah I don't know how many lines the mov headers contain as I recorded them on my iphone. lol! On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Barry Hadder wrote:
> Well, it is going to get a little more involved, but you can do the fallowing. > this will strip the header from file1, contatinate it with file2, and write > the final result to final_file: > sed 1d|cat file2 /dev/stdin>final_file > > This is assuming that the header is 1 line. you need to know how many lines > it is and replace the integer in the sed command accordingly. > > if you have a bunch of files who's headers need to be stripped: > ( sed 1d file1&&sed 1d file2&& so on )|cat file /dev/stdin>final_ > file > > It might be a good idea to play around with this on simple text files just so > you know what order you want the files to be in. > > On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > >> Except the headers in teh *.mov files might be different so youtube might >> not play them. Basically I read an artical on how to merge *.mov files in QT >> but it involves draging and dropping. I've tried several other programs >> including imovie and tht didn't work. >> >> Take care. >> >> S >> On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Barry Hadder wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but if all you are doing is >>> concatenating files you can do the fallowing: >>> >>> cat file1 file2>file3 >>> >>> That will merge file1 and 2 putting the contents into file3. You can type >>> man cat to learn more about how to use it. >>> >>> There is also a merge command that is useful for merging changes in to or >>> more files. >>> >>> hope that helps. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Aug 18, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >>> >>>> Oh I did and I found out it might not work. I need another method of >>>> doing this with a gui. >>>> >>>> Is there a program that will merge mov files and be accessible. >>>> On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Barry Hadder wrote: >>>> >>>>> Sarah, >>>>> >>>>> Hit control-c to shut down the cat util. >>>>> >>>>> It doesn't mater if a file name has spaces. you can saround it with >>>>> quotes, escape the space with \, or use tab. The tab completion applies >>>>> at any time. >>>>> >>>>> The cat command expects a file name, and if it doesn't have one in it's >>>>> parameter list it just sits there. Any time that happens, use control-c. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Aug 18, 2010, at 3:12 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I did. Now I can't get the cat command to work. it sits there with no >>>>>> output or errors >>>>>> Sarah Alawami >>>>>> MSN: marri...@gmail.com >>>>>> aim: marri...@gmail.com: >>>>>> >>>>>> website: http://music.marrie.org >>>>>> youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 >>>>>> Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com >>>>>> >>>>>> On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:07 AM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Can you rename it in finder? 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