On Wednesday 21 April 2004 05:08 pm, Jim Meyering wrote: > > cut never stops. The file 'firstchunk' just gets bigger and bigger. > > Hmm... I'll bet your data is not all on one line. > cut is a line-oriented tool, and it tries to read each > line in its entirety into memory, so it's probably not > the tool you want, after all. As I said, dd should work > better.
I thought that cut -b implied paying no attention to lines. I'll be trying the dd technique. Thanks, Mordy -- Mordy Ovits Network Security Bloomberg L.P. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
