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Text Editor for very big file - Windows
I tried to open a 18GB text file on Windows. I first tried gVim but it crashed when I loaded the file either under editable or read only mode. Any suggestion?
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migrated from stackoverflow.com May 22 '11 at 6:07
marked as duplicate by Sathya♦ May 22 '11 at 6:34
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Try out this text file viewer: http://www.swiftgear.com/ltfviewer/features.html It was specifically designed for text files over 1GB in size. |
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disable vim plugins, run it like Got this from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/908575/how-to-edit-multi-gigabyte-text-files-vim-doesnt-work |
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I used this to open up files which are more than 8GB : http://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/ use cygwin to start using the file utilities like head, tail, grep, awk, sed for analysing part of the data and running awk or sed scripts to get an overall result |
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