From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 12 7:54:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vanessa.eliuk.org (pme86.sunshine.net [209.17.178.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A6771551A for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 07:54:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by vanessa.eliuk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA02642; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 07:54:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cagey@vanessa.eliuk.org) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 07:53:48 -0800 (PST) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" To: Graeme Tait Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Use of pipe with gzip | more In-Reply-To: <36E94F09.C8A0DA32@echidna.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG zmore(1), zgrep(1) On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Graeme Tait wrote: > In other situations, piping output from "gzip -cd" through other commands to > "more", I've encountered quasi-infinite waits, and ended up aborting the > command. I would assume that this is going to vary on the amount of memory that is available being that the compressed file has to be cached into it. zgrep(1) would probably be more efficient for searching through large compressed files. -- Regards, Kevin G. Eliuk Box 67, Granthams Landing, BC VON 1X0 (604)886-4040 Discover Rock Solid, Discover FreeBSD | http://www.FreeBSD.Org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message