Timeline for Best way to grep a big binary file?
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| Oct 10, 2023 at 7:34 | comment | added | phuclv |
--mmap is only available in BSD grep, but Linux uses GNU grep
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| Aug 14, 2015 at 0:05 | comment | added | Michael Martinez | As noted in comment to other answer, this will fail to detect a string that happens to fall on a fold boundary. But if you run grep with a few different strings - `grep "string1|string2|string3" - chances are probably slim all three are always falling on a fold boundary, so you'll still find what you're looking for. | |
| Aug 13, 2015 at 23:05 | history | edited | Michael Martinez | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 13, 2015 at 22:59 | history | edited | Michael Martinez | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 13, 2015 at 22:53 | history | edited | Michael Martinez | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 13, 2015 at 22:44 | history | answered | Michael Martinez | CC BY-SA 3.0 |