Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!hal!ncoast!allbery 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) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 19 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 For comp.sources.misc send mail to ncoast!sources-misc