Read large text files like 3GB in size.

[GRMrGecko]

I have an access log that I need to read and it is 3GB in size. Any application that can read that? Maybe Hex Edit.

 

[northerngit]

I'm not sure about GUI applications - however I would suggest you look at the Terminal commands:

less / more

 

[rowsdower]

I'm pretty sure TextWrangler could handle it, and it's free.

 

[GRMrGecko]

I'm pretty sure TextWrangler could handle it, and it's free.

That gave me this error, (MacOS Error code: -116)

 

[rowsdower]

I'm not sure what that means. I've opened some large files in TextWrangler, but maybe not quite that large.

 

[miles01110]

There's really no good way to do this; any program you use is going to take forever to open it. Like... hours possibly. I'd try a built-in text editor like nano or emacs.

 

[angelwatt]

I'd recommend splitting the file into smaller ones. Using terminal you can use the split command.

split -l 100000 largeFile.log split_

This will split the file into files of 100K lines per file. I haven't tried it out though. The last piece is the prefix for the split-named files e.g., split_001.

 

[GRMrGecko]

I'd recommend splitting the file into smaller ones. Using terminal you can use the split command.

split -l 100000 largeFile.log split_

This will split the file into files of 100K lines per file. I haven't tried it out though. The last piece is the prefix for the split-named files e.g., split_001.

Great idea, I never knew of that command.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

I'm pretty sure TextWrangler could handle it, and it's free.

No, TextWrangler maxes out at 384 MB.

It's rather expensive uncle BBE (30 day demo) on the other hand is only limited by your available RAM.

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