On Apr 3, 11:56 pm, "Robert R. Melton" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/3/2009 10:49 PM, Tom Porter wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > We currently have a kludge wrapper that does a head -10000 on the file
> > to a temp file and them lets us look at the results using vim, but in
> > the cases where data being sought is not in the first 10000 records
> > this does not help. I know a scripter/unix geek approach would be to
> > grep for the desired data in such a large file and look at the
> > results, but many of our users are not so unix savvy, and prefer the
> > simple read-only file browser with arrow key navigation that crisp
> > gives us.
>
They arrow-key through primarily to scan location of fields, then
search for id numbers using typical vim '/' search.
> I am a bit startled by this ... your users are currently looking thru
> 10,000+ records using arrow keys? That would, at first glance seem
> insane. I fear I must be missing some critical part of the work-flow.
> Does Crisp feature a search interface they are using to do that job that
> grep would do?
>
> I know it is slightly off-topic, but now I am really curious...
>
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