This idea wouldn't satisfy the original premise of the thread that the file couldn't exist twice: Has anyone thought of using the shell command "split"? I have used split or csplit to vi edit small portions of very large ascii files, recombining the big file using "cat". It would probably not have been any faster than using "sed" as the original author did, but you might be able to do more complex editing.

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