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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:01:45 -0700
From:      Rob <europax@home.com>
To:        "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: running diff on huge files
Message-ID:  <3B870709.6202C0CC@home.com>
References:  <3B86FE12.FFF46FB0@home.com>

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Rob wrote:
> 
> I am trying to run diff on two huge files (220M) and I run out of swap
> space.  Is there another alternative?  I have a Python script that does
> something similar, but works on huge files, but it is much slower than
> diff.  Thanks,  Rob.
> 
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split -b 50000k   put the files into managable size.  Rob.

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