folks,

In my working directory, there a multiple large files which only contain one line in the file. The line is too long to use "grep", so any help?

For example, if I want to find if these files contain a string like "93849", what command I should use?

Also, there is oder_id number inside the line, just a part of the line, the format is : .....<order_id>92873</order_id>....., how can I grab all the order ids from these file?

Thanks and have a nice day!!!

Hi, I had the same issue with a large XML file being on one line. If you have Pearl on your server, you can use this command to add carriage returns after the closing xml tags so you can use the sed command.

cat $file | perl -p -i -e 's@><@>\n<@g' > `echo ${file} | cut -d. -f1`_broken.xml

Replace "$file" with your filename. This will create a copy of the file called filename_broken.xml with carriage returns.