I have a huge daily textual logs (2-3 GB), which I want to investigate for specific event (which I know when it occurred), I'm using less (since it all on ssh to remote server).
I'm looking for an option to jump as fast as I can to the exact time, and I think if there is an option to a binary search to find it, it should be the fastest (right now jump to end of the day takes tens of seconds)
Thanks!
Based on this other question's answer:
sgrep might work for you:
sudo apt-get install sgrep
sgrep -l '"needle"' haystack.txt
The project page http://sgrep.sourceforge.net/ says:
Sgrep uses a binary search algorithm, which is very fast, but requires sorted input.