On Tuesday 25 December 2007 07:29, Afan Pasalic wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > ... > > The "reallyReallyBigFile:" is actually Inbox file from Thunderbird. > When I was leaving the old company 2 years ago I just copied whole > T-bird to backup HD. Now, I'm looking for one very important email > and the only place left is this huge Inbox file. > > $> file Inbox > Inbox: data
Is there a place you could post, say, the first few megabytes of this file so we could look at it? You can create such an excerpt using this command, or a similar one: % dd if=superUltraLargeVeryProblematicFile of=excerptThereof bs=1M count=2 The size of the result will be the count value times the bs value. The 'M' suffix means "megabytes" in the CS sense (1024 * 1024). The invocation shown above will produce the 2 megabyte excerpt Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
