Need something to open LARGE txt file
I need something to open a 270mb txt file, tried word, wordpad, editpad and even browsers but everything keeps hanging.
Anyone have any ideas what I can use to view it's contents (it's a log file) without hanging my old (3 yr old) machine
running win98se
Renegade posted this at 06:36 — 30th October 2003.
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270MB?! What the hell were you logging?
Busy posted this at 09:31 — 30th October 2003.
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logging one of my web sites.
5-10mb is normal, so need to find out who's linking to what.
error log is no help as they haven't caused any errors (doesn't list 302's)
mairving posted this at 13:35 — 30th October 2003.
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Email it to me and I will see if I can open it...just kidding. Can you open it using vi on the machine that it is hosted on via SSH maybe?
druagord posted this at 14:37 — 30th October 2003.
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i already had a similar probleme and vi solved it for me. if you only need the end of the file you could also use this on unix
tail -n1000 yourfile.txt > smallfile.txtIF , ELSE , WHILE isn't that what life is all about
Busy posted this at 21:14 — 30th October 2003.
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Whats vi ?
[edit] Ok managed to get it open, what I did was split the file into 20 smaller files, did a search on google for text split and found a freeware zip of little programs from a edu department.
Now I just have to find time to go thru them [/edit]
Thanks
mairving posted this at 21:47 — 30th October 2003.
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vi is a unix text editor. Most of the time now, vi is aliased to vim (vimproved), which has syntax highlighting and such.
Greg K posted this at 01:17 — 17th November 2003.
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I use Ultra Edit for text editing, I think it can open a file of any size. You can try it at ultraedit.com
It also has many great features built in for web page editing such as syntax highlighting and FTP Open/Save.
I haven't found an editor (for windows) that I like better, and I still haven't tried about half the features on it.
-Greg
dacsoft posted this at 04:55 — 26th November 2003.
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I have found that NoteTab will open about any size of Unix or Windows text file. There are different versions available. It is available at http://www.notetab.com.
Dacsoft Internet Services
RichCoder posted this at 07:53 — 17th December 2003.
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I second the UltraEdit recommendation.
-rich
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