perl On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 13:31, Mordy Ovits wrote: > When I try to cut a 412,569,600 byte chunk from the middle of a 9GB file, cut > fails. I believe it is trying to allocate memory for the full 412MB, which > is not the best way to do it. It's best to do it in chunks, like cp does. > > Also, does cut support files larger than 4GB? > > This in on Linux 2.4.22 with glibc 2.3 and coreutils-5.0-6.1.92mdk > > Even if its a bug, can you recommend another tool that will allow taking a > large slice from a huge file? > > Thanks, > Mordy
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