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Old 09-15-2007
trim file
Hi,

I have a 6G log , which is unusual to read and I want to minimize it by removing some part on the upper portion( around 4GB). what should i do? can you please help me?

thanks.
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Old 09-15-2007
use split.

Code:
split -b <size for split> <your file> <new file>

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