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The Monday 2007-12-24 at 12:19 -0600, 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".

I would report that as a bug - unless you really have too little memory

 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
:(

Try

cat file.txt | grep -i "word"

- -- Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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