Your message dated Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:10:28 +0200
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and subject line Re: grep doesn't support large files
has caused the Debian Bug report #217557,
regarding grep reads files line by line
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Package: grep
Version: 2.5.1-6
Severity: important
bash-2.05b$ dd if=/dev/zero of=LARGE bs=1 count=1 seek=2147483649
bash-2.05b$ grep -- -O2 LARGE
grep: LARGE: Cannot allocate memory
bash-2.05b$ ls -l LARGE
-rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 2147483650 Oct 25 14:16 LARGE
bash-2.05b$ grep -V
grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1
Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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El 25/10/03 a las 14:24, Adam Heath escribió:
> Package: grep
> Version: 2.5.1-6
> Severity: important
>
> bash-2.05b$ dd if=/dev/zero of=LARGE bs=1 count=1 seek=2147483649
> bash-2.05b$ grep -- -O2 LARGE
> grep: LARGE: Cannot allocate memory
> bash-2.05b$ ls -l LARGE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 2147483650 Oct 25 14:16 LARGE
> bash-2.05b$ grep -V
> grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1
…
Hi,
I am closing this old bug since I am not able to reproduce it. I am
afraid I am unable to exactly state when it was fixed, but I suspect it
relates to the gnulib largefile module, that Jim Meyering included in
August 2011.
Cheers,
Santiago
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