How to get only the first ten bytes of a binary file

Question

I am writing a bash script that needs to get the header (first 10 bytes) of a file and then in another section get everything except the first 10 bytes. These are binary files

Answer 1

You can use the dd command to copy an arbitrary number of bytes from a binary file.

dd if=infile of=outfile1 bs=10 count=1
dd if=infile of=outfile2 bs=10 skip=1