Seems to me that you should be able to do this with dd. Caleb On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 11:59, csj wrote: > Is there a utility to truncate files such that a single smaller piece or > no more than two pieces are produced? Something like: > > (1) original_file -> small_chunk (bigger_2nd_chunk discarded) > (2) original_file -> (smaller_1st_chunk discarded) big_chunk > (3) original_file -> small_chunk + big_chunk > > split would be suboptimal, especially in scenarios (2) and (3):: > > original_file -> small_chunk_1 + small_chunk_2 + small_chunk_n > delete small_chunk_2 small_chunk_2 > concatenate small_chunk_* > > Hope you understand what I means. TIA > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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