On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 20:06, Rob Stockley wrote: > If it's a text file then how about, > > cat your_file | tail --bytes=N > your_file > > where N is the number of bytes to be kept. Can piping be made to operate > serially using a temporary file? Perhaps this is a little dangerous to > be writing back to the same file. Maybe a short script? Rambling > again.... :>
Nope needed to be cat your_file | tail --bytes=N > /tmp/tempfile ; mv /tmp/tempfile your_file Probably still not quite right. -- Rob Stockley Manawatu New Zealand An avid user of RedHat Linux Visit http://www.redhat.com
