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Is there a text editor for very big files?

How to edit specific part of large text file efficiently? The text file is has only ASCII characters and is about 500 MB. I always know a the string around which I'd like to do editting. I can open up the file in Emacs and search the string, and then do editting. Any better way?

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If you know regular expressions and it's a simple operation (e.g. search/replace), you probably want sed. Plenty of documentation is available here.

There's a list of options (at least for Windows) at this Stack Overflow question: Text editor to open big (giant, huge, large) text files

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