bug#21527: avoiding "memory exhausted" in 2.5.4?

2015-09-20 Thread Aaron Davies
i'm trying to grep an entire volume for a short, fixed string, but no matter what i do, i keep getting "grep: memory exhausted" errors the only versions i have immediately available to me are 2.5.4 and and earlier; i can probably get an upgrade to the current one installed eventually, but it wi

bug#21527: avoiding "memory exhausted" in 2.5.4?

2015-09-20 Thread Aaron Davies
On Sep 20, 2015, at 5:47 PM, Aaron Davies wrote: > i'm trying to grep an entire volume for a short, fixed string, but no matter > what i do, i keep getting "grep: memory exhausted" errors > > the only versions i have immediately available to me are 2.5.4 and and > earlier; i can probably get a