On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 20:22, Nick Rout wrote: > > > > 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
hmmm, my newbie colours showing through...scrambles back to the sidelines to watch 8/ -- Rob Stockley Manawatu New Zealand An avid user of RedHat Linux Visit http://www.redhat.com
