It should be safe to delete the entire file (or at least remove the lines 
matching your grep).  Just make sure you stop DH before deleting/editing it.

Phil

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, LuKreme wrote:

> On 31-Aug-2010, at 06:32, LuKreme wrote:
>>
>> There is a 16,000+ character line of the purge-history file that consists as 
>> near as I can tell of mostly nulls. This is the line that contains the last 
>> line in the purge-histry match.
>
> I checked my freeBSD machine and it's purge history file is plain ASCII text, 
> so it looks like mine got
> corrupted. Can I delete it, or will that lose important info? Should I find 
> that 16,000 character line and simply delete it?
>
>

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