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How to create files named after lines in a text file under Linux
I have a text file which contains a list of items (one for each line) and I need to create, in a given directory, a file for every entry in the said list; each one of these files should be named with ...
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Display Text File On Desktop
I am looking for freeware that will allow me to display a text file on my windows desktop.
Hopefully some software that is lightweight, and will work on WinXP to Win8.
I plan to use this freeware in ...
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file changes — notification and diff
I'm looking for a way to be notified if a text file changes (Windows 7), and be offered a file diff upon such a change. For example, the text editor Notepad++ does part of this, notifying me of an ...
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Edit first line of large text file
I have a huge text file, far too big for the whole thing to be paged into memory. All I need to do with this text file is edit the first line (its a CSV file and I need to alter the titles).
Is there ...
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How do I create a multiline text file with Echo in Windows command prompt?
I'm using Windows 7 and I would like to quickly create a small text file with a few lines of text in the Command prompt.
I can create a single line text file with:
echo hello > myfile.txt
but ...
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Free WinMerge alternative with more clear line comparison [closed]
I use WinMerge to compare text files, usually alogn with TortoiseSVN.
It is pretty good.
The only thing which is inconvenient for me is very rough line comparison.
For instance, if I have two long ...
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How to replace part of a text file between markers with another text file?
Say I have a text file like this:
# custom content section
a
b
### BEGIN GENERATED CONTENT
c
d
### END GENERATED CONTENT
I'd like to replace the portion between the GENERATED CONTENT tags with the ...
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How can I make an Excel pivot table from very large text file?
I have a text file with tab delimited columns, that is longer than can be imported into an Excel worksheet (> 1,000,000 rows). I'm trying to figure out how to create an Excel pivot table from the data ...
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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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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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convert lines to fixed column length
I would like to simply take a given text file and enforce a maximum column length of say 80. How can I turn this:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new ...
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Firefox: viewing text files in external editor
I would like to make Firefox view text files not in its internal editor, but in the external editor (namely EmacsClient).
Is it possible to change this default behavior of Firefox?
EDIT:
I beg your ...
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Why a 200 MB text file overloads 4gB ram
I wrote a simple program in c++ that does some calculations, outputs a number to a textfile, and repeats. Several million times. The final text file was around 215 megabytes, yet when I opened it, ...
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Utility to normalize text files
Does there exist a command line utility to check for and ideally fix grunge in text files? e.g.
Inconsistent or non-native line endings (lf vs cr/lf)
Extra whitespace at end of lines
Spurious byte ...
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How can I see what the format of my textfile is?
I have a textfile and I want to know whether it is Ascii or UTF-8 or something else.
How can I see this?
Any tool or website that I can use?
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Command-line tool to measure how fast a file is growing?
Is there a command-line tool to measure how fast a text file is growing, in units of lines/second?
For small-ish files, I can do something with watch and wc -l, but that measures the file anew each ...
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Saving a tab separated file in Excel without quotes
I have a tab separated value file that I want to edit in Excel. When Excel saves the file it modifies any column with quotes. It puts quotes around the whole column, and then double any quotes within ...
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Is there any simple text file format that supports versioning?
I'm looking for something that has the following features:
Single file that has all versioning information stored in it (I believe Microsoft Word has a feature similar to this).
I only need it for ...
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How do I export the history from the Windows command line to a text file?
How do I export the history from the Windows command line to a text file?
I think you can do it in Linux as something like "history >filename.txt", but how do you do it in Windows? I'm a geneticist, ...
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Open massive file on Mac?
I'm looking to open a massive text file on my mac. The file is just over 10Gigs.
I won't get into how it was created or what it's use is, since it isn't really relevant to the question.
Are there any ...
