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Subject: incremental file remove?
Message-ID: <2061@usceast.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 16-Jun-84 02:28:40 EDT
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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
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Often (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
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Ted Nolan                               ...decvac!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted
6536 Brookside Circle
Columbia, SC 29206                      ("Sixty-sixty?" he suggested)
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