Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 05/26/2010 01:16 PM, Rector, David wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have studied various filesystems, and am fairly familiar with how they are
>> structured. However, I am currently stuck on trying to do what seems like a
>> simple thing.
>>
>> I would like to join two files
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Rector, David wrote:
>
> I have seen 'mmv' and 'lxsplit' and they all seem to do the same thing,
> namely they want to physically copy the bytes in order to join two files
> together.
>
> Is there any such utility in linux to perform such a hard link to join or
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Rector, David wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have studied various filesystems, and am fairly familiar with how they are
> structured. However, I am currently stuck on trying to do what seems like a
> simple thing.
>
> I would like to join two files together without havin
On 26May2010 17:06, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
| On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 07:30 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
| > Can you elaborate on why you want this as opposed to to a hard link?
| > i.e. what specific facility a hard link does _not_ give you that your
| > proposal would?
|
| A hard link just gi
On 05/26/2010 10:16 AM, Rector, David wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have studied various filesystems, and am fairly familiar with how they are
> structured. However, I am currently stuck on trying to do what seems like a
> simple thing.
>
> I would like to join two files together without having to physic
On 05/26/2010 01:41 PM, Rector, David wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Thanks for the tip. I think there may be something here I can use.
>
> However, I am not as familiar with pipes and streams as I would like
> to be.
>
> Is it possible to use cat so the multiple files will pipe to something
> that my app can
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 07:30 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Can you elaborate on why you want this as opposed to to a hard link?
> i.e. what specific facility a hard link does _not_ give you that your
> proposal would?
A hard link just gives a specific file an extra name. The OP wants a
single nam
On 26May2010 10:16, Rector, David wrote:
| I have studied various filesystems, and am fairly familiar with how they are
structured. However, I am currently stuck on trying to do what seems like a
simple thing.
|
| I would like to join two files together without having to physically copy
bytes
Rector, David wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Thanks for the tip. I think there may be something here I can use.
>
> However, I am not as familiar with pipes and streams as I would like
> to be.
> Is it possible to use cat so the multiple files will pipe to something
> that my app can open. E.g. my apps don't
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 11:41 -0700, Rector, David wrote:
> Is it possible to use cat so the multiple files will pipe to something
> that my app can open. E.g. my apps don't operate on the standard input
> stream, they need to open the file, then scan back and forth within
> the file.
[Kindly don't
s, there is. It's called "cat".
cat file1 file2 file3 | your_app
Mike
From: Rector, David
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 10:54 AM
To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: Linking two files together
Thank you all for your quick repl
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 10:54 -0700, Rector, David wrote:
>
> Perhaps there is a utility or wrapper that could trick any regular app
> into thinking that two files were actually one long file?
It would be a non-trivial project but I think you need something along
the line of a database that masque
Rector, David wrote:
[snip]
> Perhaps there is a utility or wrapper that could trick any regular app
> into thinking that two files were actually one long file?
Yes, there is. It's called "cat".
cat file1 file2 file3 | your_app
Mike
--
p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,3
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 10:54 -0700, Rector, David wrote:
> Indeed, I have many apps that need to use these files, and it would
> be difficult to modify them all to look at a sequence of files. I was
> looking for an easier way.
>
> Perhaps there is a utility or wrapper that could trick any regular
modify the app so it could
process a sequence of files?
poc
From: Rector, David
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 10:16 AM
To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Linking two files together
Hello,
I have studied various filesystems, and am fairly familiar with how they are
structured. How
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 10:16 -0700, Rector, David wrote:
> It seems to me that it should be possible to simply modify the file
> entry in the filesystem such that the last inode of the first file
> points to the first inode of the second file. I guess this is similar
> to a "hard link", but used to
On 05/26/2010 01:16 PM, Rector, David wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have studied various filesystems, and am fairly familiar with how they are
> structured. However, I am currently stuck on trying to do what seems like a
> simple thing.
>
> I would like to join two files together without having to phys
Hello,
I have studied various filesystems, and am fairly familiar with how they are
structured. However, I am currently stuck on trying to do what seems like a
simple thing.
I would like to join two files together without having to physically copy bytes
(i.e. I have vary large files, so I don'
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