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SubjectRe: How to create a fixed length character/block device/file ?
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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