Thanks, I found a "head" util in GNU coreutils. I got it working to do what I want. :) On Monday, March 29, 2021 at 1:50:40 PM UTC-4 John MacFarlane wrote: > > perl -ne "print if $. <= 1450" > > CR writes: > > > I'm looking for a head util for Windows 10 cmd line right now. > > > > On Monday, March 29, 2021 at 8:55:18 AM UTC-4 Jeremy Theler wrote: > > > >> What about some UNIX philosophy here and do one thing well at a time? > >> > >> head -n1455 input.md | pandoc > >> > >> > >> > >> On Mon, 2021-03-29 at 05:10 -0700, CR wrote: > >> > I use Pandoc 2.7.2 on Windows 10 in a command window. I make EPUB > >> > books from markdown files mainly. I'm getting out of memory errors > >> > form this one large .md file that is 1.3MB in size and I'm having a > >> > hard time finding out which line is giving me problems. The exact > >> > error is: > >> > > >> > pandoc.exe: getMBlocks: VirtualAlloc MEM_COMMIT failed: The paging > >> > file is too small for this operation to complete. > >> > ERROR from pandoc. > >> > > >> > My source files are on a flash drive with about 1.6GB of free space > >> > left. Is the default paging file on the same drive as the source > >> > file? That may be my problem. > >> > > >> > Can we have an option in Pandoc to stop processing a source file at a > >> > certain line? Like: > >> > -stopline:1455 > >> > > >> > is where Pandoc would stop reading the source file at line 1455. What > >> > this means is this would only work for the first source file in a > >> > list of files on the command line. I mainly use single source files > >> > when making an EPUB file. > >> > > >> > One option when multiple input files are specified would be to > >> > specify the input file and line like this on the command line: > >> > -stopline:file2.md:1455 > >> > > >> > This means Pandoc would read file1.md, and only read up to line 1455 > >> > in file2.md and then close the EPUB normally to make a valid EPUB > >> > file. > >> > > >> > Thanks! > >> > > >> > p.s. I have already removed all asterisks from my source file > >> > thinking Pandoc does not look for an even number of asterisks in a > >> > "paragraph" before it processes it and I still have problems. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> > Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. > >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > >> > send an email to pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > >> > To view this discussion on the web visit > >> > > >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/f73de601-a3be-4ba8-80ce-60ea859eb401n%40googlegroups.com > >> > . > >> > > >> > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/b7124b44-4b07-479d-8205-cfded2aa5f65n%40googlegroups.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/a842c5d1-cd2c-498d-9945-307cf5e85c59n%40googlegroups.com.