Re: cut fails with "cut: memory exhausted" when taking a large slice

[Mordy Ovits]

On Wednesday 21 April 2004 07:30 pm, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Mordy Ovits <address@hidden> writes:
> > I thought that cut -b implied paying no attention to lines.
>
> cut --help says in the second line:
>
>    Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output.
>
> That implies that all actions are applied separately on each line.

Thanks, my bad.

I took Jim Meyering's advice and used dd with skip=, and it's working a treat.

Thanks for all your help,
Mordy
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Mordy Ovits
Network Security
Bloomberg L.P.