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From: Janis Papanagnou on 24 Feb 2010 13:47
pk wrote:
> Janis wrote:
>
>> >> * largefile problems (Darren Dunham in c.u.s)
>> >>
>> >> cat file | cmd
>> >> A workaround for commands which have been compiled without
>> >> largefile support but accept a pipe, e.g. compressing
>> utilities.
>>
>> I am puzzled about this one. Why is it a problem for (some?)
>> compression programs to read the file from a non-pipe stdin
>> channel, as in
>>
>> cmd <file
>
> I suppose the "< file" trick works with at most one file; if you have many
> large files, you'd need "cat file1 file2 ... fileN | command", assuming cat
> supports large files, which it seems to do in all implementations (?).

I thought the point of the suggestion had been _one_ large file?

Janis, still puzzled
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