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hifun 04-05-2009 06:14 AM
file compactation
 
I need to remove user specified bytes ( could be in between) from file and then compact the file.All I got is brute-force method. Say user says to remove bytes 5-10 from file of size 100 bytes, then I'am shifting 90 bytes of data( bytes 11 to 100) back to 5 bytes.
Any other optimal approach or system call which could make this efficient?

JulianTosh 04-05-2009 06:32 AM
Code:
dd if=/tmp/test bs=1 skip=5 count=5
By calculating your skip and count based on the user input, you can string one or two 'dd's together to accomplish what you need.

hifun 04-05-2009 11:04 AM
Admiral Beotch,
I think you didnt get me. Say a file contain data as "Linuxquestions.org" total of 17 bytes, now if user want to remove bytes 6-14 then content of file should be "Linux.org".I am asking for efficient method to do this.And yes preferably through C program.

JulianTosh 04-05-2009 04:35 PM
I got what you meant. This is what I was talking about:

'skip.sh 5 14'
Code:
skipBegin=$1
skipEnd=$2

echo "Linuxquestions.org" > /tmp/file.dat
dd if=/tmp/file.dat bs=1 skip=0 count=$skipBegin of=/tmp/file1.dat
dd if=/tmp/file.dat bs=1 skip=$skipEnd of=/tmp/file2.dat
cat /tmp/file?.dat
This, of course, is a bash script and not C code, so I guess it's not what you're looking for.


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