True, but the proposed solution is less computationally complex...
assuming it actually solves the problem at hand. Bill mentioned that
his command format was probably incorrect, so you should not hold that
against him. It's the idea that counts.
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, James Washer wrote:
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]>
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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.
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