26GB text file

[John M Drescher]

I have a 26GB logfile that was produced by my program. What is the best free text editor to read such a file?? John

[David Cunningham]

:omg: David

[ckatili]

How about Visual Studio?

[Shog9 0]

>tail hugefile.txt

Shog9

Let your mercy spill / On all these burning hearts in hell If it be your will / To make us well...

[l a u r e n]

:wtf:

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[Radoslav Bielik]

:eek: Now that will be a loooooooooooooooooooong read :laugh: Rado

[Jorgen Sigvardsson]

vim :) -- Gnnnnmmmpppppppfffffhhh!

[lsauer]

well actually total commander internal lister (F3). The only possible solutions, as far as reading only goes. The advantage is that it takes virtually no resources and 0 loading time or that stuff it streames dynamically, so size is just limited by your HD and OS but not by this app.

[Brian Delahunty]

Ok.. notepad is out of the question. Regards, Brian Dela :-)

[Daniel Turini]

UNIX tools use longs for file positioning and don't support files > 4GB.

// Quantum sort algorithm implementation
while (!sorted)
;

[John M Drescher]

I really want to only look at the end. It is an error log and I can see that there are a few database errors. The thing is that the system is working as expected... John

[John M Drescher]

That was my reaction when I found out that the log file was eating up the entire system partition. I'm glad I did not put it on the data partition it would have another 100GB to go... John

[Atlantys]

:eek: The kindest thing you can do for a stupid person, and for the gene pool, is to let him expire of his own dumb choices. [Roger Wright on stupid people]

[Ted Ferenc]

edlin in a "DOS" box!

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[Bijesh]

You'll probably be better off writing your own program to read the last few lines and write in in another file.. Visual Studio just gives up if the file is too big... --------------------------------------------------

[Daniel Turini]

Import it via DTS/BCP/SQL*Loader (each line is a record), create a full text search index, and run SQL queries to find the info you need. And next time, create more manageable log files :)

// Quantum sort algorithm implementation
while (!sorted)
;

[John M Drescher]

Daniel Turini wrote: And next time, create more manageable log files I'll be working on the fix for that ASAP... John

[Jorgen Sigvardsson]

How long do you think such an import would take? :rolleyes: :-D -- Gnnnnmmmpppppppfffffhhh!

[Jorgen Sigvardsson]

Depends on what UNIX. Most modern ones have been upgraded to use 64 bit positions. Of course, YMMV with SCO.. :) -- Gnnnnmmmpppppppfffffhhh!

[John M Drescher]

:omg: It took me forever (> 30 minutes) just to copy the file to a RAID 0 array... John