Nexus 9000 show tech-support

[zstamm]

I am working with a client on troubleshooting an issue with a Nexus 9K.   Seeing as I do not have direct access to the device, I had him run 'show tech-support' to get all of the information on the device.  On other devices, this makes a large, but manageable text file to get information from.  From the 9k, the file was 2.3GB extracted!  This is too large of a file for any text editor to handle.  What is the best way to get diagnostic information from this? 

[marce1000]

 - If show tech-support details  was executed, perhaps in an initial  trouble shooting phase, one could start without the details option.

[zstamm]

The command was tac-pac.  I don't have direct access to this device, so getting back in would be tricky.  Is there another way to extract this information from this file?  Is there a tool that can be used to extract this information?  Unix file parsing commands are the only thing I can think of to get info form this file, but that is less than optimal.  

[balaji.bandi · Accepted solution]

yes we do the same, store in the nexus flash or USB, upload to Linux box, start looking with grep or egrep for the looking information.

[zstamm]

OK, I can do that.  I just really thought there would be a better tool for this.

[zstamm]

I extracted the running-config with this unix command:

sed -n "/'show running-config'/,/--------------------------------------------------------------------/p" showtech.txt > showrun.txt

[balaji.bandi]

If you like you can do many toolsk

grep

egrep

AWK

sed

cat 

so on, you choose best what you can, i do combination of many to match correct what we looking for.