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From: "Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: how to cut a piece of file?
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 09:03:43 -0700
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Michel Rueger wrote:
> 
> I'm working on Free BSD 2.2.1 and I have to make a new file with the
> last 10Mb of  a 200Mb log file. How can I do that (without editing the
> file...! :))

look at 'man split'