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From: chidsey@smoke.brl.mil (Irving Chidsey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.large
Subject: Re: need help on unix
Message-ID: <16383@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 11 Jun 91 12:06:57 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.005353.22061@unixg.ubc.ca>
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Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Jun11.005353.22061@unixg.ubc.ca> wangf@unixg.ubc.ca (Frank Wang) writes:
<Is that possible to delete some lines from a file (the file is so large that  
<it's impossible to use any editor) without evoking any editors?
<
<Thanx in advance.

	Yes, there is an editor defined just for that purpose.  'sed' is
a stream editor, it reads the file one line at a time, does its thing, and
writes to a new file.  One problem, you must be able to define the lines
you want to delete using standard 'ed' commands.

	I believe you can also use fsplit to split the file into digestable
chunks.

	Try 'man sed' and 'man fsplit' if you have on line manuals.

	Every once and a while un*x does something right, like an editor
for files too big to edit.

								Irv


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