Reasonable... not quite.. that command will give you ONLY THE LAST 300 lines... There have been quite a number of reasonable solutions offered however.
Further "<" syntax works with files, not command standard output On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:36:05 -0700 (PDT) Sebastian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow! It only took us two days to find a resonable solution ;) > > > On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Bill Cunningham wrote: > > > I know the original question was to truncate the first 300 lines of the > > file but why do that when you could just solve the problem without > > modifying the original file at all. If the purpose is to not send the first > > 300 bytes to a command then simply use the tail command: > > > > tail -300 original_file > > > > So if you wanted to feed the original file to mysql you could use: > > > > mysql < tail -300 original_file > > > > ( I'm a little rusty so man tail to find the exact command.) I'm of the > > belief of keep it simple. Why modify the file at all? > > > > Bill Cunningham > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: P_Thorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 7:08:39 PM > > Subject: [RLUG] Re: quick question > > > > This idea wouldn't satisfy the original premise of the thread that the > > file couldn't exist twice: > > Has anyone thought of using the shell command "split"? I have used > > split or csplit to vi edit small portions of very large ascii files, > > recombining the big file using "cat". It would probably not have been > > any faster than using "sed" as the original author did, but you might be > > able to do more complex editing. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > RLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > RLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
