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Name

snip - copy an excerpt of a WFDB record

Synopsis

snip -i input-record -n new-record [ options ]

Description

snip copies the signal files (and, optionally, annotation files) of the specified input-record, and generates a header file, thereby creating the specified new-record. snip is usually used to extract an excerpt of its input-record, using the -f and -t options (see below) to specify the segment to be copied.

The program xform(1) can also perform this task, but offers additional flexibility (it can scale the signals, resample them at a different frequency, rearrange them, select subsets of them, or reformat them); snip is faster than xform, however.

Options are:

-a annotator
Copy the specified annotator as well as the signal files. Two or more annotator arguments, separated by spaces, can follow -a. An annotator supplied via the standard input may be specified using ‘-’, but only immediately after -a; in this case only, annotations are copied to the standard output.
-f time
Begin at the specified time in the input record (default: the beginning of the record).
-h
Print a usage summary.
-l duration
Snip a segment of the specified duration (hh:mm:ss or snnnn; overrides -t if given).
-m
Preserve segments of multi-segment input, if possible.
-O format
Write output in the specified format. See header(5) for a list of available formats (16, 80, 212, ...). If this option is omitted, snip uses a format that best fits the ADC resolution of the samples.
-s
Suppress output of info strings in the output header file.
-t time
Process until the specified time in the input record (default: continue to the end of the record).

Environment

It may be necessary to set and export the shell variable WFDB (see setwfdb(1) ).

Files

new-record.annotator
output annotation file
new-record.dat
output signal file
new-record.hea
output header file

See Also

setwfdb(1) , xform(1) , header(5)

Author

George B. Moody (george@mit.edu)

Source

http://www.physionet.org/physiotools/wfdb/app/snip.c


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