Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd!fischer From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: file too large Message-ID: Date: 17 Sep 89 12:14:29 GMT References: <2388@netcom.UUCP> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 17 In-reply-to: beaulieu@netcom.UUCP's message of 16 Sep 89 06:14:58 GMT In article <2388@netcom.UUCP> beaulieu@netcom.UUCP (Bob Beaulieu) writes: >I have a text file that is very large (26,000+ lines) and would like >to break it down to 5-6 smaller files. Is there an easy way to handle >this? I have tried vi but, it seems to hold 5000 lines in its buffer. >The same goes for ed and ex. Try emacs(1). Handles files with up to 2^31 characters. /Lars -- Copyright 1989 Lars Fischer; you can redistribute only if your recipients can. Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk, {...}!mcvax!iesd!fischer Department of Computer Science, University of Aalborg, DENMARK. Our audience is programmers, because the UNIX environment was designed fundamentally for programming. -- Kernighan & Pike