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

Anders

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