Re: Multi-threading in sort(or core-utils)

[Pádraig Brady]

On 16th June 2008, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 
> Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> 5. I think it would be nice for dd to support reading portions of
>> a file efficiently. As far as I can see it can only do it by reading
>> 1 byte at a time. Perhaps skip_bytes=x and count_bytes=x would
>> be useful additions?
> 
> These also sound like good suggestions.

I just noticed in the info docs for dd that there
is a method to achieve skip_bytes at least:

(dd bs=1 skip=123456 count=0 && dd bs=8192) < file

Pádraig.