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Bug #5801
closednuke big file scanner (bfs)
Start date:
2015-04-08
Due date:
% Done:
100%
Estimated time:
Difficulty:
Bite-size
Tags:
needs-triage
Gerrit CR:
Description
The description of bfs from the manpage:
The bfs command is (almost) like ed(1) except that it is read-only and processes much larger files. Files can be up to 1024K bytes and 32K lines, with up to 512 characters, including new-line, per line (255 for 16-bit machines).
Given the limitations, this utility is essentially worthless.
Bryan Cantrill's thoughts about bfs from Surge 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gp-RXCLO2M#t=58m10s
Finally, for what its worth, I've heard that Oracle is removing bfs from Solaris.
Updated by Electric Monk about 7 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 80 to 100
git commit eba03e8e19855a13cb54c87ad0767659a673b834
commit eba03e8e19855a13cb54c87ad0767659a673b834 Author: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net> Date: 2015-04-13T21:39:21.000Z 5801 nuke big file scanner (bfs) Reviewed by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net> Reviewed by: Albert Lee <trisk@omniti.com> Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
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