On 11 Mar 2002 13:25:06 -0800 Caleb Shay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems to me that you should be able to do this with dd.
You're absolutely right. Reminds me of someone's Linux motto: You want it, you have it. > 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
