On Fri, 13-Dec-2002 at 08:15:22 -0500, Gerald T. Freymann wrote: > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > > Are there any special features in FreeBSD that I can use > > to truncate a file in the beginning? > > Sure. > > man split > > should do it!
Don't think so... from the split manpage: The split utility reads the given file and breaks it up into files of 1000 lines each. If file is a single dash (`-') or absent, split reads from the standard input. ... Maybe my email wasn't very clear regarding this: I can't afford to read the 10GB (or even more) and move them to a new file (this would have to be done on the same disk so it would take too long). I need something that moves the start of the file to a position within the file and discard all bytes upto that position. I had a look at split.c but it does exactly that what I don't need: It reads and writes... -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message