Sorting part of a large text file...

[shinji]

I have a 24 mb text file and I need to create another one that contains all the lines with a given keyword.

Is there a simple unix command to do this? Or am I better opening the whole thing in textmate and trying it that way?

 

[CanadaRAM]

BBEdit is probably the best application for this.

However, Excel is also a useful tool for text manipulation. (however, you are limited to working with chunks of the file that are no more than 65,000 lines long)

 

[shinji]

BBEdit is probably the best application for this.
However, Excel is also a useful tool for text manipulation.

I've actually been thinking about switching to BBEdit despite the silly pref pane.

Got another thread about that here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/460512/

But as far as this issue, there must be some way built-into the os? I'm not even sure how to search the man pages for this because it's such a broad topic and there so many commands.

 

[shinji]

Actually I just figured this out

grep -i "keyword" filename.txt > newfilename.txt