Grep is causing Out of Memory (OOM) errors

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When a script using a grep command with a regular expression is run against a text file containing very long lines an OOM condition is seen

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7

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