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Re: cut fails with "cut: memory exhausted" when taking a large slice
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Mordy Ovits |
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Re: cut fails with "cut: memory exhausted" when taking a large slice |
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Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:37:03 -0400 |
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On Wednesday 21 April 2004 05:08 pm, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > cut never stops. The file 'firstchunk' just gets bigger and bigger.
>
> Hmm... I'll bet your data is not all on one line.
> cut is a line-oriented tool, and it tries to read each
> line in its entirety into memory, so it's probably not
> the tool you want, after all. As I said, dd should work
> better.
I thought that cut -b implied paying no attention to lines. I'll be trying
the dd technique.
Thanks,
Mordy
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Mordy Ovits
Network Security
Bloomberg L.P.
Re: cut fails with "cut: memory exhausted" when taking a large slice, Ken Wolcott, 2004/04/21