On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 11:37 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > > What about writing the first n bytes to a file and then passing that > > to the command line? I'm assuming a Linux server here, but it should > > do the trick. > > gaaaaah! i was hoping for something that wouldn't make me want to > gouge out my eyes with a soup spoon. :-) > > rday > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. > > Web page: http://crashcourse.ca > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > ======================================================================== >
Lol, that's about the easiest way I can think of doing it reliably! Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk