On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Shrinivasan T <tshriniva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Friends. > > I have to work on some huge text files that are around 2GB - 10GB. > Have to read some content on those files and have to rewrite them. > Mostly have to cut/copy/paste/edit the contents in random areas. > > sed, awk kind of utilities can not be used as the data is not under > regex and the manual operation/verification is must. > > I have a 2GB RAM machines. > Opening in vim takes much time and every action takes 20-30 min. > > Is there any possibilities to speed up the progress? > I have many computers that are idle. > > How can I create a cluster of RAMs from those idle machines, so that I > can work on those huge files easily? > Is it possible?
No, that won't help. You have to open files in less which loads up instantly , then switch to vi with the 'v' key... -Girish _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
