On Monday 24 December 2007 20:39:30 Greg Freemyer wrote: > On Dec 24, 2007 2:33 PM, Anders Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 24 December 2007 20:17:45 Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > 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 > > > > http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?9886 > > > > > cat file.txt | grep -i "word" > > > > According to the bug report, it doesn't (always?) help > > cat file.txt | fold | grep -i "word" > > Or if file.txt is really binary junk: > > strings file.bin | fold | grep -i "word"
well, he said it was a text file, but "fold" is good to know. I hadn't seen that one before. Thanks Anders -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
