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		sergiotapia on Aug 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Inside the "3 billion people" national public data... Downloaded the torrent, and it's a 164GB text file. What's a quick way to search if my SSN is in the file? I ask before diving in, it's currently extracting and ETA is 40 minutes.

ivanjermakov on Aug 15, 2024 | [–]

Use grep with some optimizations:

    LC_ALL=C fgrep 'ssn' file.txt

https://stackoverflow.com/a/13913220

themaninthedark on Aug 15, 2024 | [–]

Hey, if I give you my SSN can you check to see if it is in there for me?

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