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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: "dd conv=unblock cbs=80 - really grep replacement"
Keywords: grep replacement
Message-ID: <12257@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 88 21:20:28 GMT
References: <144@insyte.UUCP> <3350@phri.UUCP> <8168@ncoast.UUCP> <145@insyte.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <145@insyte.UUCP> jad@insyte.UUCP (Jill Diewald) writes:
>Two things: first I am using HP-UX which does not have 'conv=block'
>documented so its probably not implemented either.

(silly of them :-) )

>More importantly, this is NOT a good solution. ... The files that
>we deal with are very very large data files.  Making a reformated
>copy of the file is not a good solution.

Think `tools'.  Think `pipes'.

	dd if=big_data_file cbs= conv=unblock | grep 
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