"dd conv=unblock cbs=80 - really grep replacement"

[Chris Torek]

In article <145 at insyte.UUCP> jad at 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=<recordsize> conv=unblock | grep <regexp>
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