Topic: Strings does not work for big files

[sinthea]

I was trying to calculate DBID of oracle database according to the topic http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-discover-find-dbid.html and following number 2) mechanism specified there that is using of strings keyword.

My unfortunately my oracle database datafile is so big that I could not use strings keyword for searching.

I used,
strings datafilename_loc.

It failed with big file size. What I will do now?
How I can open file with strings?

[artacus]

Try it from stdin instead. I don't have a datafile handy to try it on, but I'd guess the dbid would be near the start of the file.

head -n 100 | strings | grep DBID