From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 17:50:55 2003 Return-Path: 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 BAE1437B401 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:50:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out005.verizon.net (out005pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DADA843F75 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:50:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([141.149.47.46]) by out005.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030717005054.XHAS20032.out005.verizon.net@mac.com>; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:50:54 -0500 Message-ID: <3F15F2EC.7050104@mac.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:50:52 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BSD baby References: <20030717004419.GA91784@mail.hitmedia.com> In-Reply-To: <20030717004419.GA91784@mail.hitmedia.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out005.verizon.net from [141.149.47.46] at Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:50:54 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to copy just part of a file? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:50:56 -0000 BSD baby wrote: [ ... ] > Though I found a scripting way to do it with PHP, I'm wondering > if there's a more direct way to do it with basic GNU/BSD commands. GNU split will take options related to size/byte counts, rather than just ASCII lines. -- -Chuck