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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 16:05:28 -0400 |
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On Wednesday 21 April 2004 03:35 pm, Jim Meyering wrote:
> If you want to continue using cut, you'll have better
> luck with the latest:
>
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2
Doesn't work.
address@hidden ~]$ ls -l ~/bigfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 movits movits 9075738624 Apr 21 12:39 /home/movits/bigfile
address@hidden ~]$ cut -b 1-412569600 ~/bigfile > firstchunk
cut never stops. The file 'firstchunk' just gets bigger and bigger.
When I ctrl-c'ed the cut, firstchunk was already at 491851776 bytes
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