On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 11:39, Robert Boone wrote: > Hello, > I have a compress file I need to edit under linux. The problem is > uncompressed the file is > 2G. I have tried uncompressing it in a jfs > file system and a reiser file system but the 2G limit remains. Once > uncompress I need to run the file through a perl program to filter. Can > anyone give me any tips that can help me? if you _only_ need to filter the contents of the file you can zcat bigfile.gz | filter_script | gzip > filtered_bigfile.gz P. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list