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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: "dd conv=unblock cbs=80 - really grep replacement"
Message-ID: <8231@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 88 21:27:29 GMT
References: <144@insyte.UUCP> <3350@phri.UUCP> <8168@ncoast.UUCP> <10104@tekecs.TEK.COM> <145@insyte.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <145@insyte.UUCP> by jad@insyte.UUCP (Jill Diewald):
+---------------
| Ideally, grep could be passed a record size which it would use instead
| of newlines.  And/Or grep could be told to only search specified columns
| of every record.  This would enable me to easily deal with these files 
| without tieing up either memory or disk space.
+---------------

	dd if=... conv=unblock cbs=... | cut -c... | grep ...

(or replace "dd" with an unblocker program)

Cro-magnons win out over Neanderthals again.  ;-)

-> If you don't have "cut", that should tell you something.  What it tells
you depends on which variant of Unix you have.
-- 
Brandon S. Allbery, uunet!marque!ncoast!allbery			DELPHI: ALLBERY
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