On Wednesday 11 May 2005 00:06, James D. Parra wrote:
Hello,
Anyone know of an editor that can open a 39 GB text file? I need to locate and copy out a large block of text from this file, about 8 million rows, at roughly 200 MB of data.
sed once you know the starting and ending lines of the block you want to copy, you can do something like sed -ne '<starting line>,<finishing line>p' infile > outfile For example, if the block begins at line 5000 and ends at line 100000 it would be sed -ne '5000,100000p' infile > outfile If the starting and ending lines are known, you can also match on them. For example, if the starting line is ===start=== and the ending line is ===end=== it would be sed -ne '/===start===/,/===end===/p' infile > outfile