Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:34:10 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: sapdb@komadev.de Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange "less" behaviour on big files Message-ID: <xzpd699qe65.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <1074970937.4012c1394eba7@localhost> (Kai Mosebach's message of "Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:02:17 %2B0100") References: <1074970937.4012c1394eba7@localhost>
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Kai Mosebach <kai@freshx.de> writes: > i lessed a 1.0 gig file filled with zeros and less seems to slurp in > as much as it can get at one time! AFAIK, it tries to read one entire line; since your file doesn't contain any line feed characters, it ends up reading the entire file. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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