From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 24 19:41:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B03737B40C for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:41:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA61278; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:55:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:55:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Rob Cc: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: running diff on huge files In-Reply-To: <3B870709.6202C0CC@home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Rob wrote: > 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. doesn't work for files that have diffs across the 50k boundary.. you need a streaming diff... Interestingly this is not impossible.. you may be able to make one read the sources to diff. :-) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message