Afan Pasalic wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
>> On Monday 24 December 2007 09:49, Afan Pasalic wrote:
>>> hi,
>>> I have 1.6 GB big text file and I have to find if there is a specific
>>> word in the file.
>>> Every time I try
>>> $> grep -i "word" file.txt
>>> I'll get message: "grep: memory exhausted".
>>
>> Try fgrep. It doesn't use regular expression matching (and your "word"
>> is a simple fixed string, so it will work for that).
>
> "grep: memory exhausted" again
> :(
>
>
How much memory & swap have you got?


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