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What is the fastest way to grep 400gb400GB binary file? I need one txt file from hddHDD dump and iI know some strings from it and want to find this file in the dump.

I tried to use grep -a -C 10 searchstringgrep -a -C 10 searchstring but grep crashes with out of memory when it tries to read large chunkchunks of data without newline symbols. Also iI would like to start searching from not from the beginning but from some point of file

What is the fastest way to grep 400gb binary file? I need one txt file from hdd dump and i know some strings from it and want to find this file in dump.

I tried to use grep -a -C 10 searchstring but grep crashes with out of memory when it tries to read large chunk of data without newline symbols. Also i would like to start searching from not from the beginning but from some point of file

What is the fastest way to grep 400GB binary file? I need one txt file from HDD dump and I know some strings from it and want to find this file in the dump.

I tried to use grep -a -C 10 searchstring but grep crashes with out of memory when it tries to read large chunks of data without newline symbols. Also I would like to start searching not from the beginning but from some point of file

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Best way to grep big binary file?

What is the fastest way to grep 400gb binary file? I need one txt file from hdd dump and i know some strings from it and want to find this file in dump.

I tried to use grep -a -C 10 searchstring but grep crashes with out of memory when it tries to read large chunk of data without newline symbols. Also i would like to start searching from not from the beginning but from some point of file