On 16th June 2008, Paul Eggert wrote: > > Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 5. I think it would be nice for dd to support reading portions of >> a file efficiently. As far as I can see it can only do it by reading >> 1 byte at a time. Perhaps skip_bytes=x and count_bytes=x would >> be useful additions? > > These also sound like good suggestions.
I just noticed in the info docs for dd that there is a method to achieve skip_bytes at least: (dd bs=1 skip=123456 count=0 && dd bs=8192) < file Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
