From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 19:31:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FE4016A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:31:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30FB143D39 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:31:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j18JUtWe029998; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 13:30:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 13:30:55 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Sergey Matveychuk Message-ID: <20050208193055.GD82752@dan.emsphone.com> References: <420908FF.8030604@ciam.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <420908FF.8030604@ciam.ru> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diff: memory exhausted X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:31:03 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 08), Sergey Matveychuk said: > How can I compare two big text files? diff -H might help, or you can try installing the textproc/2bsd-diff port which apparently doesn't try to load the files into RAM, so it can work on large files more easily. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com