On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 15:32, Pascal via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > that's awesome, it works ! > it was so simple with cat taking over and consuming the data until the end ! > (I added a redirect to /dev/null to cat) > big thank you. I'm interested in the amount of effort you put into this. Isn't the overhead of the pipes etc going to negate any memory/speed improvements you may get from only opening the file once or is there another consideration at play here?