Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usceast.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!usenet From: usenet@usceast.UUCP (Network admin alias) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: incremental file remove? Message-ID: <2061@usceast.UUCP> Date: Sat, 16-Jun-84 02:28:40 EDT Article-I.D.: usceast.2061 Posted: Sat Jun 16 02:28:40 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Jun-84 01:13:40 EDT Organization: Csci Dept, U of S. Carolina, Columbia Lines: 20Often (well sometimes), I will have a big file in a tight filesystem that I want to transform in some way ( say a tar file I want to extract or a batched news file I want to unbatch) , and have the results go in the same filesystem. When space is really tight I find myself having to go through all sorts of contortions to do this, even though the results would easily fit , IF the original file weren't still there. I wonder if any of y'all out there have a way of making a file erase itself as it is read. Speed or efficiency isn't too important. I can always nohup it and go home. Thanks Ted Nolan ...usceast!ted -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Nolan ...decvac!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted 6536 Brookside Circle Columbia, SC 29206 ("Sixty-sixty?" he suggested) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------