[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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