Head command

2005-11-07 Thread Marcos Marconcini
Hi, I am trying to extract a portion of a large file, to do a sha1 check, it's greater than 2.7Gb. I was reading help for head command, but it's only permit me put number of lines to extract, and I need to extract the portion of 1.5Gb in bytes, and generate a new file. Is this posible? How

Re: Head command

2005-11-07 Thread Damien Miller
man dd On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Marcos Marconcini wrote: Hi, I am trying to extract a portion of a large file, to do a sha1 check, it's greater than 2.7Gb. I was reading help for head command, but it's only permit me put number of lines to extract, and I need to extract the portion of 1.5Gb

Re: Head command

2005-11-07 Thread Rod.. Whitworth
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 03:11:43 -0300, Marcos Marconcini wrote: Hi, I am trying to extract a portion of a large file, to do a sha1 check, it's greater than 2.7Gb. I was reading help for head command, but it's only permit me put number of lines to extract, and I need to extract the portion