[clug] *nix editor for Gigabyte files?

Scott Ferguson prettyfly.productions at gmail.com
Tue Aug 10 16:18:02 MDT 2010


 On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:37:57 +1000 Michael James <clug3 at james.st> wrote:
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> 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.
>
> Something easier than Vim would be appreciated.
>
> michaelj
>
> -- Well theme my emoticons disgusted. What has Linux come to? Michael
> James

Re: editor
Try nano, easier again - try mc with nano :-D
Re: task (fast)
find xargs sed

Cheers


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