Ni Va said on Thu, 17 Mar 2022 01:41:08 -0700 (PDT) >Hi All, > >Is it possible to open a Large File Vim but just only few beginning >lines of it, edit one of these 50 first lines and then save and quit ?
head -n 50 bigfile.txt | vim - # NOTE: Save as bigfile.new tail +51 bigfile.txt >> bigfile.new # NOTE: bigfile.new is now your edited file. If you do it often, you can put it in a shellscript, and can even rename the original to .bak. HTH SteveT Steve Litt March 2022 featured book: Making Mental Models: Advanced Edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20220317063748.7670a1c1%40mydesk.domain.cxm.