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I need a text editor to edit/visualize >10GB text files
So as to vizualize, and hopefully edit, a very large text file, more than 10GBytes (a backup dump of whole database), I have tried using vim... it didn't behave very well.
I have also tried cat to at ...
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1answer
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Select line not selecting whitespace
Is there a way to select (or paste) text without trailing/ending whitespace?
eg. To copy the whole line I press y, to paste it somewhere else I use p,
but it pastes the whole text with the trailing ...
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2answers
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Align columns in ASCII file
I have a text file that looks like his:
#c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c7 c8 c9 c10 c11 c12 c13
4599 995,274 2523,658 ...
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1answer
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Vim: Making XML text “pretty”
Is there an easy way within vi to make your XML text "pretty"?
For example:
I want this..
<person>
<name>Nick</name>
<age>26</age>
...
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4answers
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“Multipass” scripted modification of large file in-place (file-system level)?
I have just came to the problem of having to cut some lines from a large (gigabyte) sized file, and being aware of potential CPU hog trying to read it in memory, I wanted to edit it in-place ...
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2answers
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In emacs (or other editor) how to display the byte offset of the cursor?
The question indicates my preference to use emacs, but the overriding issue is that I want to be able to do a normal text search and somehow see/copy-paste the byte-offset of the matched text.
To ...
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1answer
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!fmt for current line only
When I want to format part of text with fmt in vim I usually select parts of interesting lines in Visual Mode, with: Ctrl+V Arrows, and than type !+f+m+t.
When there are couple of lines they are ...
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2answers
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What is the connection between a gedit bug and a Unix-&-Linux Q/A href?
While answering a Unix-&-Linux question, I observed that Gedit and two other editors, Leafpad and Medit (I tested 12 editors altogether) exhibit the a certain bug. As it turns out, the bug is ...
7
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2answers
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How does one find and replace text in all open files with jed?
How does one find and replace text in all open files with jed?
2
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2answers
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How does one find and replace text in all open files with kate?
How does one find and replace text in all open files with kate?
2
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1answer
241 views
How does one find and replace text in all open files with LibreOffice?
How does one find and replace text in all open files with LibreOffice?
2
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2answers
516 views
How does one find and replace text in all open files with gedit?
How does one find and replace text in all open files with gedit?
3
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1answer
688 views
How does one find and replace text in all open files with geany?
How does one find and replace text in all open files with geany?
