I downloaded a huge Firebase backup looking for a particular record. I ended up using the “split” shell command to get a bunch of 1gb files, then grepping for

I downloaded a huge Firebase backup looking for a particular record. I ended up using the “split” shell command to get a bunch of 1gb files, then grepping for which file had the record I was looking for, then using my own custom script to scan outward from the position of matched text until it detected a valid parsable JSON object within the larger unparseable file, and return that.