> > When using head or tail with the -c option to specify some number of > bytes, is there any limit to the size of the number that can be used? I > think there might not be a limit, or if there is one it is a number greater > than the size of any file any of us will ever see. Think so? > good question. magnitude issues are all too often shrugged off, hence issues like y2k, 2038, not to mention countless buffer overflow security holes. i've had fun at various times running a loop trying a number, then 10 times that number, and so on to see the results, but of course that only tells you the local/current functionality, where the real problem is all too often that no upper limit is even defined, declared, or considered. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150211/343c48cc/attachment.html>