On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:16:15 +1200 Rob Stockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. the man is talking +2G files. that method is likely to take a long time and create a lot of time consuming disk activity, and maybe blow your /tmp file system > -- > Rob Stockley > Manawatu > New Zealand > > An avid user of RedHat Linux > Visit http://www.redhat.com > > --
