On Wednesday 21 April 2004 03:35 pm, Jim Meyering wrote: > If you want to continue using cut, you'll have better > luck with the latest: > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2
Doesn't work. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l ~/bigfile -rw-r--r-- 1 movits movits 9075738624 Apr 21 12:39 /home/movits/bigfile [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cut -b 1-412569600 ~/bigfile > firstchunk cut never stops. The file 'firstchunk' just gets bigger and bigger. When I ctrl-c'ed the cut, firstchunk was already at 491851776 bytes Mordy -- Mordy Ovits Network Security Bloomberg L.P. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
