Re: seek within a large file

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 10/17/03

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    Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:29:07 GMT

    On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:50:47 +0100, Andy Baxter <news3@earthsong.null.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
    >
    >
    > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 04:59:07 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:
    >
    >> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 04:48:29 +0100, Andy Baxter <news3@earthsong.null.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
    >>>
    >>>>
    >>>> I can't help but point out that while he is following your advice,
    >>>> he could already have read the file.
    >>>>
    >>>> I'd probably cut it into pieces first with split, deleting the original
    >>>> file, then cat it back together afterwards.
    >>>>
    >>>> You can do whatever way you want, but it would be cool if you would actually
    >>>> post a *practical* approach to doing what he wants, rather than just some
    >>>> vague geek-talk....
    >>>
    >>> If he only wanted to do this once from the command line, your solution
    >>> might work but would be very inefficient. It would probably be
    >>> better to do something like:
    >>>
    >>> dd if=bigfile of=samplefile bs=1024 skip=1048576 count=samplesize
    >>>
    >>
    >> That's IT! I *knew* there was a quick way to do that right, without writing
    >> a new utility.
    >>
    >>
    >>> But from reading the original question, I don't think that's what he was
    >>> looking for - sounds more like he's writing a program which needs to be
    >>> run more than once and hence should be reasonably efficient.
    >>>
    >>> andy.
    >>>
    >>
    >> And is yours not? Seems like using it in a script with read to get the
    >> variables would work nicely.
    >>
    >> Is there, Andy, a utility that converts kb decimal to kb binary? Or just
    >> any number to whatever its not in at present, hex/octal/dec?
    >
    > Have a look at man printf and man 3 printf.
    >
    > You can convert (unsigned) decimal to octal with
    >
    > printf '%o' decimal-number
    >

    didn't get anything but printf '' 20
    when I tried that with 20

    > printf doesn't do binary, but you could convert octal to binary in a shell
    > script using some kind of look up table - e.g. a file like:
    >
    > 0 000
    > 1 001
    > 2 010
    > 3 011
    > 4 100
    > 5 101
    > 6 110
    > 7 111
    >
    > andy.
    >
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    So where did you get skip=1048576 then? How did you convert 1GB to that?

    The way I get them when it seems like a script needs the 'binary-kb', is
    to copy a file that's close to that size, add and subtract lines until
    ls -sh reads, say, 16mb, and then run just ls -l on it .... Sure seems
    like the long way around the barn.... 

    -- 
Alan C
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