On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Rob wrote:
> Rob wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to run diff on two huge files (220M) and I run out of swap
> > space. Is there another alternative? I have a Python script that does
> > something similar, but works on huge files, but it is much slower than
> > diff. Thanks, Rob.
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> split -b 50000k put the files into managable size. Rob.
doesn't work for files that have diffs across the 50k boundary..
you need a streaming diff...
Interestingly this is not impossible.. you may be able to make one
read the sources to diff.
:-)
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