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I need to split a binary file into two. I was wondering if head and/or tail could be used but then I wondered...is it safe to use redirection, piping etc with binary data? Do new lines get messed about with, or nulls ignored, or backspace or delete do something special? (bash, kubuntu 18.04 LTS)






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    I need to split a binary file into two. I was wondering if head and/or tail could be used but then I wondered...is it safe to use redirection, piping etc with binary data? Do new lines get messed about with, or nulls ignored, or backspace or delete do something special? (bash, kubuntu 18.04 LTS)






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      I need to split a binary file into two. I was wondering if head and/or tail could be used but then I wondered...is it safe to use redirection, piping etc with binary data? Do new lines get messed about with, or nulls ignored, or backspace or delete do something special? (bash, kubuntu 18.04 LTS)






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      I need to split a binary file into two. I was wondering if head and/or tail could be used but then I wondered...is it safe to use redirection, piping etc with binary data? Do new lines get messed about with, or nulls ignored, or backspace or delete do something special? (bash, kubuntu 18.04 LTS)






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          Yes it's safe if you pipe it to another process or save it to a file. There is potential "weirdness" if you let binary stdout print to a terminal since it can contain escape sequences (at random) that can temporarily mess up the terminal display.






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