[clug] *nix editor for Gigabyte files?

Brendan Jurd direvus at gmail.com
Mon Aug 9 20:03:02 MDT 2010


On 10 August 2010 11:37, Michael James <clug3 at james.st> wrote:
> What editor can quickly open multi gigabyte files on Linux?
>
> The task is to find a string,
>  check the line it's on has survived a Perl transform,
>  and edit it if necessary.
>

Sounds like a job for grep and sed.

Cheers,
BJ


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