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| From: | Kevin Rodgers |
| Subject: | Re: help editing huge files in emacs |
| Date: | Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:03:03 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) |
Jesús Velazquez wrote:
How can I edit a selected number of lines in a 4GB file in Emacs without open the whole file? Is it possible?
beg=12345
end=67890
sed -n "${beg},${end}p" big_file > excerpt
emacs excerpt
sed "${beg},${end}d;$((beg - 1)r excerpt" big_file > new_big_file
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Kevin Rodgers
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