in reply to Reading large files

That isn't a "perl problem".

Your zcat binary isn't built to handle large (>2GB) files.

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Re^2: Reading large files
by ahoriuch (Acolyte) on Mar 12, 2015 at 21:20 UTC
    You are absolutely right!!! I fixed the problem by switching to zgrep. Thanks!
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