for extracting a portion of a file, the dd command can be hastened dramatically (by a factor of 10,000) by changing the to bs=1024 (for example) and increasing count to be inclusive, and then piping the result to head -c to trim it down to exact byte-size.
10,000 may be an exaggeration. okay it is an exaggeration. but does not seem to be far off. instead of head, piping it to another dd might also work. Or forgetting dd altogether, and just use head and tail. HTIUTS Mike -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
