[BusyBox] Feature proposal
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Sun Jun 16 09:12:03 UTC 2002
In message <8978CA866960D311B715009027937DA201CAA883 at MAILSERV> you wrote:
>
> For example split file to take only the second Kb from file:
> tail -c +1024 some_file | head -c +1024
This:
dd if=some_file bs=1k skip=1 count=1
is more efficient (less typing, only one process).
Wolfgang Denk
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Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux
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GUIs are virtually useless. Learn tools. They're configurable,
scriptable, automatable, cron-able, interoperable, etc. We don't need
no brain-dead winslurping monolithic claptrap.
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