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Re: comm Command for Large File


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: comm Command for Large File
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 01:35:59 +0000
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On 01/14/2014 10:15 PM, jayanthi radhakrishnan wrote:
> Hi ,
>   
>    We have a problem that our comm command in Solaris is not Large File aware 
> ( File size larger than 2 GB).
> Does your comm command support Large File?
> I mean whether it can compare 2 files which are larger than 2 GB in Size.

Yes GNU comm will support the largest files available on a platform directly.
You might be able to use your comm with the overhead of a data copy through
some fifos or pipes with something like:

comm <(cat file1) <(cat file2)

thanks,
Pádraig.



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