How to open a 18GB text file?

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I tried to open a 18GB text file on Windows. I first tried gVim but it crashed when I loaded the file either under editable or read only mode. Any suggestion?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 22 '11 at 06:15

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Try out this text file viewer:

http://www.swiftgear.com/ltfviewer/features.html

It was specifically designed for text files over 1GB in size.

answered May 22 '11 at 06:15

Bandit

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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disable vim plugins, run it like

vim -u "NONE" hugefile.log

Got this from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/908575/how-to-edit-multi-gigabyte-text-files-vim-doesnt-work

edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

Community

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answered May 22 '11 at 06:27

vimmy

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 22 '11 at 06:31

I used this to open up files which are more than 8GB : http://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/

use cygwin to start using the file utilities like head, tail, grep, awk, sed for analysing part of the data and running awk or sed scripts to get an overall result

How to open a 18GB text file?

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