Re: diff (2.8.1) cannot work with really large files

[John Cowan]

Darren Reed scripsit:

> Meanwhile, I think I'll write my own diff program that doesn't
> need to allocate 600MB of RAM to tell me 5 lines are different.

You might want to try using an older streaming diff program,
from *BSD or OpenSolaris or the Heritage Toolkit.  Or just
expanding your swap partition.

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