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From: | "Peter Milne" <peter DOT milne AT netspeed DOT com DOT au> |
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Subject: | problem concating (>>) to a large file |
Date: | Fri, 25 May 2007 18:04:21 +1000 |
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I have a large file, let's call it A. I want to stick the contents of a small file (let's call it B) onto the end of A. Until recently in cygwin I could just type: cat B >> A and it did exactly what I wanted. Now though, presumably because A has gotten so large, when I do the above command the contents of file B get copied onto the front of file A rather than onto its end. I assume that A has become sufficiently large that a 64-bit file offset is needed to properly address it and that >> doesn't currently support this. If so this certainly seems like a short coming, perhaps even a bug. I updated my version of cygwin to the latest version but this didn't help. Is there a fix or workaround? cp A B > C then mv C A achieves what I want but is slow, inefficient and inconvenient. I'm not on the list, so please copy any replies to my email address. Thanks Peter -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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