split command seems like a good solution. Would it still work properly if the file contains multi-byte characters?
vim, never managed to get the idea behind that editor. maybe I should give it another try :( On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Issa Mahasneh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > If the file is too big you can split it to multiple files using split > command: > > *split test.txt -b 10000000* > > will split test.txt to multiple files each one of maximum size = 10000000 > bytes.. > > anyway, I've opened larger files with vim and never had significant > problems > > > > 2009/7/11 Al-Faisal El-Dajani <[email protected]> > > Greetings all, >> >> I am trying to edit a rather large file (300+ MBs). Whenever I try to open >> it up with emacs it refuses because file exceeds buffer size. Trying to open >> it in textmate or other text editors takes forever (if at all), and the >> machine is mostly unusable. So, my question would be, how do you edit large >> files? Any special editors or commands that might help? >> >> thanks in advance >> -- >> Al-Faisal El-Dajani >> >> >> > > > > -- Al-Faisal El-Dajani --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### http://Jolug.org/ http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo ### Ojuba Linux ### http://ojuba.org/ ### Jordan PHP ### http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
