ettest:/usr/local/tmp $ulimit
unlimited

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#!/usr/bin/perl
# try seek to get around my problems with 11G file
# $have value derived from the total size of the splits I've extracted
$have = 4912152576;

open BIG, "<QAPI.0.log" or die "cannot open QAPI ... $@";

$ret = sysseek BIG, $have, 0;
print STDERR "sysseeked to $ret \n";
$ret = sysread BIG, $data, 1024;
print STDERR "sysread $ret\n";
print $data;