[PLUG-Devel] Edit 2GB text file?

[der.hans]

Am 23. Feb, 2006 schwätzte Slide so:

> On 2/23/06, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote:
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>> I have a 2GB text file (Yep, that big.) to edit.  What editor can handle
>> that?
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>> Alternatively, is there a utility out there to break such a file into X
>> number of pieces?
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>> Alan
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> I've edited a file that large in VIM although it took a little while
> to load and to scan through. There is a tool called strangley enough,
> split, which will split a file into pieces. I believe its part of
> core-utils. man split anyway.

Or use head and tail with numbers to cut it up based on numbers of lines.

Maybe just see if using GNOME Terminal makes a difference :).

http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/

ciao,

der.hans
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