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Is there replacement for split in Windows? [duplicate]
I want to split a large file ~9 GB by lines, I know split command in UNIX but is there a similar command for Windows?
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Excel catalog EAN generation automation
My catalog EAN generator file is over 9 Mb large. So I am constantly trying to improve the performance by removing inter-page references. But even then it's no less than 9 Mb, and takes a lot of my ...
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Performing a regex replace on a 900 MB logfile
My beloved TextPad says "out of memory" after a while when trying to perform this operation. Next best (i.e. simplest/fastest) free tool to do this?
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Opening 1GB+ XML file for editing [duplicate]
Running Windows 7 64-Bit w/6GB RAM. Attempting to open a 1GB XML file in an attempt to repair an Excel Spreadsheet. I have tried other tools but all caused memory errors. I even tried sed (Windows ...
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Mount SMB share without 2GB filesize limit in OSX Lion
I want to mount a network attached drive onto OSX Lion with Samba.
Usually I do this in Finder with "Go>Connect to Server" and type "smb://192.xxx.xx.xxx" in the Server Adress field, however doing ...
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How can I see the last lines of a large file in Windows? [duplicate]
My servers hung, and after a restart it showed me that my hard drive was full (Windows Server 2008). I looked into the problem and it was a 189 GB Tomcat log file!
To find out the cause for the ...
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Large zip files content is corrupted when unziped using windows explore
We have a large zip file (25GB) containing mosty pdfs and png files. (about 150000 files)
When we unzip the file using windows explore some of the content is corrupted. Some png files shows content ...
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Text editor for BIG files? [duplicate]
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Is there a text editor for very big files?
I have text file (XML) of 40G. How to open it with text editor to see cursor and it's relative position to the beginning of ...
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How to download large files on problematic wifi connections?
I'm working out of a hotel with somewhat poor internet. I need to download a large 5 gig file. It looks like the estimate is about a day. I'm sure this will probably have 2 issues, the connection ...
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gVim crashing while opening 8GB text file
I have an 8GB text file which contains output from a structural analysis program. The output is in the form of lines corresponding to time steps - with each line representing state of a system at a ...
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Gnome: How to open a very very large log file?
I've got a log file about 157Gb (Gnome). It's a very large file and nor gedit nor vim can open it.
Alternatively I want only to see the last 20 lines and I can't back it up because of space storage ...
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What's the best way to view lines X through Y of a large file?
I have a very large text file and I want to view, say, lines 2000 through 2010 (with the line numbers included)
I know one sort of roundabout way of getting there:
sc -l [file]
cat -n [file] | tail ...
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How to view large spreadsheet in Windows
What would you recommend to a non-technical Windows user for viewing (no need to edit) large spreadsheets (200MB - 5GB).
Format is CSV and I am told Excel chokes.
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Cannot copy files from external hard drive to desktop hard drive in Window 7
I'm trying to copy some old files from one of my external hard-drives to the hard drive of my desktop PC. Some files can not be copied but giving the error like 'Cannot read from source file or disk'. ...
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External HHD won't copy large files
I have Buffalo HD_PXU2 (with password protection) and I'm trying to move a very important file of 90 GB (it's a virtual PC Hard disk and should be taken all) but once I try to copy I get the message
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How to convert very large HTML files to Word and avoid document mega-bloat
I need to convert some very large HTML files (about 800KB, PDF equivalent about 30 pages) into MS Word. It's easy up to a point: just open in Word and resave as docx. Problem is, the resulting Word ...
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How to uncompress a 9GB file in Windows FAT32
I have a 2GB RAR file that contains a 9GB video file. I'm using a FAT32 file system. Now I want to unzip that file but after 4GB I get an error due to the FAT32 file size limit.
Now I want to know ...
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Why can Vim open large files faster than some other text editors?
When opening large log files (well, not that large, but 80mb is still a lot of text!), I've always used Vim since it loads them almost instantly. Other text editors like Notepad, Notepad++, etc will ...
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Is there a major speed difference between using N WiFi or Cat5e ethernet for large file transfers?
I have a network containing 802.11 N Wi-Fi Devices and gigabit ethernet devices but only using Cat5e wiring. I know that if I used Cat6, the ethernet would be much faster, however if I need to ...
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Seeking web-based FTP client for very large file upload
I have looked around for these for some time... the limits imposed by the web server and/or the dynamic programming environment (e.g. PHP) are far too restrictive for the application I'm working on. ...
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Using 'head' or 'tail' on HUGE text file - 19 GB
I have a problem with viewing chunks of a very large text file. This file, approximately 19 GB, is obviously too big to view by any traditional means.
I have tried head 1 and tail 1 (head -n 1 ...
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Working with large files - preventing Out of Memory errors?
I'm on Windows 7 Professional x86.
I'm working with some proprietary files that are relatively large in size (~900 MB compressed, 1.5 GB uncompressed).
This program is also proprietary and the only ...
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Opening a big file [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a text editor for very big files?
I have a rather large log file on a Windows Server 2008 R2 computer. It's a couple gigabytes, but notepad, wordpad, ...
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Copy remote files on nfs without round-trip
I have a large amout of data (several GB) on a remote drive, that is transparently mounted via nfs. I'd like to copy these files into a subdirectory of where they are already residing, so everything ...
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Windows tool to convert large text file from UTF-8 to “Windows Unicode” (UTF-16)
I need to view large Unicode text files (current version is 2,379,415,348 bytes) on Windows 7.
Normally I prefer UTF-8 but, but after looking on SuperUser it seems the best Windows large file viewer ...
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View at least parts of a huge text file on Windows [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Text Editor for very big file - Windows
I have a huge text file. Text editors refuse to open it due to it's size.
How do I view it, without using a text editor?
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How can I split a large video files?
I have a TV set that allows me to plug in a USB hard drive and will play movies in it. It supports a surprisingly wide range of codecs, but as I learned yesterday (the ugly way), while it'll play ...
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How do I randomly sort groups of multiple lines in a multi-GB file?
I've got a multi-GB file that has elements in 4 lines, and I would like to have every 4 lines randomized in another file, this is, keeping each four lines grouped and randomize those sets. Is there an ...
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Storing large amounts of small files into bigger files on Windows
Let's say I have 50 GiB of files that weights around 500 KiB each.
My guess is that having, for example, 5 large files of 10 GiB each with the same content archived in them would be better for hard ...
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Transfering large files over internet [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Best method of transferring files over internet?
Free way to share large files over the Internet?
I have been asked to design a system for transfering large files ...
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converting a 12MB text file with notes to orgmode compatible file?
I have a text file that contains about 200000 lines with basically notes, with the most recent notes on top of the file, and the oldest notes at the end of the file. I want to convert it to a ...
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Read error in large file
I have a MPG file, 2.1 GB. I tried copying it from my windows machine to linux one. Only about 1GB of data got copied (the resulting file plays fine), and then I got a read error.
So, on the source ...
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Win 7 - computer locks up when dragging large video files in explorer or closing them in WMP?
I have a library of 720 and 1080p videos of my son on my computer (Q6600, 3gb ram, ATI 2600 xt, up-to-date win 7).
The problem lately, is that if I view a video, it plays fine. However, once I close ...
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Opening a 28GB Apache access log [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Text Editor for very big file - Windows
What is the fastest way to open a 28GB apache access log file, I need to look at the most recent entries.
OS is Windows Server ...
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What is the simplest way to send a large batch of pictures to a distant friend or colleague? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you sync photos with your family?
What is the simplest way to send a large batch of pictures to a friend, colleague or to a group?
I know about social sites ...
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Is there a file size limit on Windows?
I'm using Windows 7. I just lost a .vdi file (a virtual hard drive for my VM), and I'm wondering if there's a file size limit for windows which might have caused a problem. I hadn't checked the size ...
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How can I interrupt emacs opening a large file?
Sporadically when I open a large file in emacs it will hang forever, except the GUI will remain responsive! I can move my mouse between frames and the cursor will fill in, hovering over files in dired ...
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VERY large text files and Snow Leopard
Sometimes I need to work on EXTREMELY large text files. 200-300 megs or more.
My favorite text editor on my MacBook Pro is TextMate. However, TM chokes on very large text files. Even ones around ...
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Application to open / edit a very large CSV file (500 MB, 4 million records)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Text Editor for very big file - Windows
What editor/viewer to use to inspect large text based files?
I have a CSV file which has about 4 million rows and is about 500 ...
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Is there a text editor for very big files? [closed]
I have a very big text file (10 GB). Both Notepad and Notepad++ tell me that the file is too big for them to open. What editor can handle such a large file? It's a log file.
