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Note that uutils does not work if the file does not fit into memory. With GNU coreutils: $ base64 /dev/zero | head -c 1 | wc -c 1 With uutils doing the
by collinfunk 1y ago
Note that uutils does not work if the file does not fit into memory.
With GNU coreutils:
$ base64 /dev/zero | head -c 1 | wc -c
1
With uutils doing the same would exhaust your systems memory until either it freezes or oomd kills the process.
- conradludgate 1y agoFor now. There's no reason this won't/can't be worked on in the future.
- westurner 1y agoWhich BusyBox, toybox, and coreutils commands fail with data larger than RAM? Has that been part of the spec yet? Just realized `LC_COLLATE=C sort` must be specified if you don't want it to ignore leading underscores in sorting due to LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 being the default these days.