Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Rob wrote:
>
> > Rob wrote:
> > >
> > > I am trying to run diff on two huge files (220M) and I run out of swap
> > > space. Is there another alternative? I have a Python script that does
> > > something similar, but works on huge files, but it is much slower than
> > > diff. Thanks, Rob.
> > >
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> > split -b 50000k put the files into managable size. Rob.
>
> doesn't work for files that have diffs across the 50k boundary..
> you need a streaming diff...
>
> Interestingly this is not impossible.. you may be able to make one
> read the sources to diff.
> :-)
It worked out OK. But I'll have to take an extra look at the file
boundaries in the future. Rob.
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