Top "Seek" questions

how to seek to the end of file to determine the file size?

I'm trying to get file size in c programming using seek. I can't use fseek, stat.size nor ftell, there's …

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Read specific bytes of file in python

I want to specify an offset and then read the bytes of a file like offset = 5 read(5) and then read …

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lseek/write suddenly returns -1 with errno = 9 (Bad file descriptor)

My application uses lseek() to seek the desired position to write data. The file is successfully opened using open() and …

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How can I seek to frame No. X with ffmpeg?

I'm writing a video editor, and I need to seek to exact frame, knowing the frame number. Other posts on …

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Using FileStream.Seek

I am trying to work with FileStream.Seek to quickly jump to a line and read it. However, I am …

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Stream wrapper to make Stream seekable?

I have a readonly System.IO.Stream implementation that is not seekable (and its Position always returns 0). I need to …

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How is Average Seek Time Calculated?

A hard disk system has the following parameters : Number of tracks = 500 Number of sectors/track = 100 Number of bytes /sector = 500 Time …

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Perl seek function

This problem was solved. Thank you very much. My question and the solution I am using is stated below. Question: …

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C, unix and overwriting a char with write(), open() and lseek()

I need to replace the a character in a text file with '?'. It's not working as expected. The …

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How to write at a particular position in text file without erasing original contents?

I've written a code in Python that goes through the file, extracts all numbers, adds them up. I have to …

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