Strings does not work for big files
 

I was trying to calculate DBID of oracle database according to the topic http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2008/05/...find-dbid.html and following number 2) mechanism specified there that is using of strings keyword.

My unfortunately my oracle database datafile is so big that I could not use strings keyword for searching.

I used,
strings datafilename_loc.

It failed with big file size. What I will do now?
How I can open file with strings?

Hi, welcome to LQ!

Can you please describe in what way it "failed"?
What *did* you get? Any error messages? No output
at all? What makes you think the "failure" is size
related in the first place?


Cheers,
Tink

The file is too big for strings to use.

This can be a memory issue, though databases have a tendency to grow far beyond RAM capacities, no matter how big your RAM modules are. But even so, databases are supposed to hold large amounts of data, and that's why queries have been invented. You need to tailor a query that pre-sorts the possible results. Then you have to run strings keyword on those results. Should take significantly less memory.

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Is that the exact error text? It doesn't sound like it... and I just strings'd my strings, and that text isn't in it (the word 'size' doesn't even appear).

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...30#post3637530



Cheers,
Tink