From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 24 19: 2: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6A737B40E for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:02:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from europax@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010825020201.GVNQ15592.femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com> for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:02:01 -0700 Message-ID: <3B870709.6202C0CC@home.com> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:01:45 -0700 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: running diff on huge files References: <3B86FE12.FFF46FB0@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message split -b 50000k put the files into managable size. Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message