Tag: plaintextiscool
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Windows’ find command
It would appear that, not-entirely-contrary to my common rant that Windows offers no text processing tools at all, Windows does offer a find command which is like a severely crippled grep. It has five options: U:\>find /? Searches for a text string in a file or files. FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] [/OFF[LINE]] “string” [[drive:][path]filename[…
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Massive dumps with MySQL
hurr. *insert FLUSH TABLES joke here* I have a 2.5GB sql dump to import to my MySQL server. MySQL doesn’t like me giving it work to do, and the box it’s running on only has 3GB of memory. So, I stumbled across bigdump, which is brilliant. It’s a PHP script that splits massive SQL dumps…