08-02-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by
yazu
Because this is O(n^2) algorithm. And for 4GB file it will work really very long. (Days, months? Who knows...
)
Also because it's a
frequent shell mistake which attempts to load the entire thing into memory at once. Whatever the limit for shell variables on your system is, it's probably less than 40 gigabytes!
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NAME
purple-url-handler - Python script to handle URL with purple
SYNOPSIS
purple-url-handler [-URL]
DESCRIPTION
Python script to handle URL with purple.
OPTIONS
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Example:
purple-url-handler "xmpp:romeo@montague.net?message"
ATTRIBUTES
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+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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SEE ALSO
purple-remote(1), purple-send(1), purple-send-async(1), attributes(5)
purple-url-handler Manual, http://pidgin.im/
NOTES
Updated by Lei Ju, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006, 2007.
SunOS 5.11 02 Apr 2008 purple-url-handler(1)