On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 9:05 PM, website reader
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> Thanks for the suggestions, I will make some comments here.
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> I see that I did not provide nearly enough context again, sorry about that.
>
> To start, almost all records in the file start with ^S. There are
> 1,053,062,790 records in the
Thanks for the suggestions, I will make some comments here.
I see that I did not provide nearly enough context again, sorry about that.
To start, almost all records in the file start with ^S. There are
1,053,062,790 records in the file so I simply cannot grep for "^S"
because over a billion rec
How about just:
grep -f /tmp/sides.txt bigfile.txt
Where sides.txt is a list of all items you'd like to search for, one per
line.
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Robert Munro wrote:
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> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:36:36 -0700 Eric Wilhelm wrote:
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:36:36 -0700 Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from website reader on Saturday 29 September 2012:
>>> I have a list of about 2 to 5 thousand items ...
> If you don't know Perl, I think this is a really good time to read
> the `man perlintr
