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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news1.best.com!news.idiom.com!not-for-mail From: karl@idiom.com (Karl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: how to cut a piece of file? Date: 18 Jul 1997 01:30:55 -0700 Organization: karl@idiom.com Lines: 13 Message-ID: <5qn9jv$6h1@idiom.com> References: <33CCD3A6.CADC65F7@mcnet.ch> <ISHIZUKA.97Jul18093706@onion.ish.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: idiom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44613 Masachika ISHIZUKA <ishizuka@ish.org> 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...! :)) > > % tail -c 10485760 200Mblog >last10Mblog Is FreeBSD free of the limits that hassle SunOS users? (SunOS has plenty of utilities like head/tail that are limited to 32k.) If so, it's easy enough to ftp and compile the gnu utilities.