Command line tools for copying parts of video

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Published on 2009-11-26T19:26:44Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 5:55 UTC
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I have a divx video of 10 mins. I want to copy two parts from it , minutes 2 to 6 and 8 to 10 and create another video by merging the two. how can I do it using lightweight command line tools. Either on Windows or Linux?

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