split large file by string/regex

[William Park]

Martin Dieringer <dieringe at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Jason Rennie <jrennie at csail.mit.edu> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 09:38:55AM +0100, Martin Dieringer wrote:
> >> I am trying to split a file by a fixed string.
> >> The file is too large to just read it into a string and split this.
> >> I could probably use a lexer but there maybe anything more simple?
> >
> > If the pattern is contained within a single line, do something like this:
> 
> Hmm it's binary data, I can't tell how long lines would be. OTOH a
> line would certainly contain the pattern as it has no \n in it... and
> the lines probably wouldn't be too large for memory...

man strings	(-o option)

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William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
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