Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 07:53:48 -0800 (PST) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> To: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Use of pipe with gzip | more Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903120745040.970-100000@vanessa.eliuk.org> In-Reply-To: <36E94F09.C8A0DA32@echidna.com>
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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
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