Re: bsearch utility

[Sorav Bansal]

James Youngman wrote:

> Why not just use look(1)?  On my GNU/Linux system here, that comes
> with "bsdmainutils".
>  
look(1) mmaps() the entire file to memory and is not useful for large 
files (>2GB). In its current form, it operates only on the first 2GB of 
the file. For larger files, mmap() will fail. Please correct me, if I am 
wrong.

> If there is a consensus to add this, I'd have a preference for a usage
> pattern which is consistent with look(1).
>  
IMHO, it will be useful to have an equivalent of look/bsearch in coreutils.

Regards,
Sorav