Re: [h-e-w] heading a large file

[Chris McMahan]

I've been in similar situations, and emacs chokes when you run out of
memory.

I used the program split with a value of 100 meg for each
split

Usage: split [OPTION] [INPUT [PREFIX]]
Output fixed-size pieces of INPUT to PREFIXaa, PREFIXab, ...; default
PREFIX is `x'.  With no INPUT, or when INPUT is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
  -a, --suffix-length=N   use suffixes of length N (default 2)
  -b, --bytes=SIZE        put SIZE bytes per output file
  -C, --line-bytes=SIZE   put at most SIZE bytes of lines per output file
  -l, --lines=NUMBER      put NUMBER lines per output file
      --verbose           print a diagnostic to standard error just
                            before each output file is opened
      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

SIZE may have a multiplier suffix: b for 512, k for 1K, m for 1 Meg.


Michael R. Wolf writes:
>"Eric S. Johansson" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I need to edit large files occasionally (approximately 1.1 GB) and I
>> would appreciate a pointer to any Emacs packages that might help.
>> Splitting files to components of less than 7 MB each creates just too
>> many pieces.  I would prefer to keep things in one contiguous chunk if
>> possible.
>
>Why do you feel that you need to split them?
>
>I've used emacs to edit large files, even binary files, directly. I'll
>admit that I haven't needed to edit such large ones, so my mileage
>obviously varies, but I am not aware of any inherent limit in emacs
>that would prevent you from editing the whole file direcly.
>
>-- 
>Michael R. Wolf
>    All mammals learn by playing!
>        address@hidden

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