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I routinely use “less -n” to open terabyte-sized text files on a machine with a few GB of RAM. It can even do regex search. Sometimes good old tools beat the n
by dmitrygr 4y ago
I routinely use “less -n” to open terabyte-sized text files on a machine with a few GB of RAM. It can even do regex search.
Sometimes good old tools beat the new shiny turd.
- dekhn 4y agoless works fine on files with enormous numbers of lines, but not lines that are extremely long. Open up a 1G file with lines that are all 10K long and you'll see just how slow the pager can get!