From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 13 5:17:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1F6137B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 05:17:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts15.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E24F643ED1 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 05:17:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu) Received: from scaryg.shacknet.nu ([64.231.139.9]) by tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20021213131728.RAMI18340.tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net@scaryg.shacknet.nu>; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:17:28 -0500 Received: from freymann (helo=localhost) by scaryg.shacknet.nu with local-esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18Mpf0-0002GB-00; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:15:22 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:15:22 -0500 (EST) From: "Gerald T. Freymann" To: Andre Albsmeier Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to truncate a file in the beginning In-Reply-To: <20021213141110.A99587@curry.mchp.siemens.de> Message-ID: <20021213081506.O8685-100000@scaryg.shacknet.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > Are there any special features in FreeBSD that I can use > to truncate a file in the beginning? Sure. man split should do it! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Scary Gerry -- Senior Systems Manager freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu -For web-hosting, Perl, PHP & MySql programming see http://www.interpool.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message