Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:50:33 -0500 | From | Phillip Susi <> | Subject | Re: How to create a fixed length character/block device/file ? |
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Khai Doan wrote: > Sorry if this is the wrong list. I've search google, but have not found > solution to my problem. > > I have a long running application which split out lots of debugging > information. I can't redirect the output to a regular file because that > file would grow and eat up all the diskspace. I can't redirect to > /dev/null. What I want is the last 1MB of the output before my > application terminated. So I need to create a special file / device on > the system. Please tell me if there is an existing device that I can > use, or point me in the right direction so that I can role my own device.
myapp | tail -c1048576 > logfile
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