Re: On the verge of suicide:tar & gunzip problems

[Kevin Buhr <buhr@telus.net>]

Vittorio <vdemart1@tin.it> writes:
>
>> zcat /mnt/backup-compaq/home.tar.gz |
>>  perl -ne 'm,home/vic/, && do { ++$count[($l + length($`)) % 512] };
>>  $l += length($_); END { for (0..511) { printf "%3d %5d\n", $_,
>>  $count[$_] if $count[$_] } }' | sort -nr +1 | head -20
>
> For the time being I've pit aside tghe idea of suicide but the complex program 
> you suggested (see above) doesn't work. I put it inside an executable file 
> and try to execute but It invariably says
>  
> cannot execute binary file

Well, for some weird reason, it looks like you've introduced a bunch
of 0xA0 characters at the beginning of each line in your version that
weren't in my original.  Also, it isn't meant to be pasted as 4 lines
into a file but pasted as 1 single, very long line at a Bash command
prompt.

Anyway, let's try it a different way.  I've put a Perl program here:

        http://www3.telus.net/buhr/misc/find_offset.pl

You can save this and then run the following command at a shell
prompt:

        zcat yourtar.gz | perl find_offset.pl home/vic/ | head -20

-- 
Kevin <buhr@telus.net