Re: How to copy n bytes from stdin to stdout?

[Maximilian Pichler]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 11:05 AM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda
<acam...@verlet.org> wrote:
> $ cat file | perl -ne 'BEGIN { $/ = \1 } print if $. <= 5; exit 0 if $. == 5'
This is much slower than 'dd ibs=1'