On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I'm creating binary files in fortran. Fortran adds 4 byte record delimiters at the beginning and the end of each record, which, in the case of a binary file, is just at the beginning and at the end of the file. I need to delete these record delimiters, because the software I use to visualise the binary files interprets them as data. But I don't know how. I've looked at hexdump and od, but those are only dumping (I think) file contents, and I cannot see how to edit a file with them.
truncate -4 myfile should get rid of the last four bytes. Maybe there's a similar efficient way to truncate the start of a file.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
