On Wednesday 21 April 2004 05:02 pm, Jim Meyering wrote: > dd is probably the best choice, then. > > Using two separate processes is best, unless you can > find a reasonably large input block size that evenly divides both > the initial offset and the number of bytes you want to output. > > Then dd will use lseek to skip past the initial 1*NUM bytes. > > ( dd ibs=1 skip=N_SKIP count=0 && dd ibs=4096 count=100725 ) < BIG > out > > since 4096 * 100725 == 412569600.
Very clever. I'll give it a try. Thanks, Mordy -- Mordy Ovits Network Security Bloomberg L.P. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
