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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help on splitting this huge file Post 302325240 by turk451 on Saturday 13th of June 2009 10:36:59 PM
Old 06-13-2009
You might want to see if the tail command would work for your purposes. I see that it has a byte option, so you could most likely do something like:

tail -c 700 [file]

Just check the man entry for tail on your system to see that it supports this option.
 

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