Afan Pasalic pecked at the keyboard and 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". >> >> 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 > :( > >
cat file.txt | grep -i "word" might work if you onlt need to know if the "word" exists in the file. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
