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From: Sebastian Luque <spluque@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: editing large files
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:56:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87irvp4hjh.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877jc5oq7r.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au

Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com> wrote:

[...]

> For large files, I usually just split them up, do my editing and then
> join them back together again. If the changes I need to make are
> repetitive or fairly easily specified in a programatic fashion, I just
> use sed.

Thanks to all of you for your suggestions.  Indeed, I ended up using AWK,
since they were all comma-delimited files (tables).


Cheers,

-- 
Sebastian P. Luque

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-22 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.12184.1129935330.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-21 23:23 ` editing large files Pascal Bourguignon
2005-10-22  7:38 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-22  9:28 ` Tim X
2005-10-22 16:56   ` Sebastian Luque [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.12242.1130000339.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-23  5:36     ` Indenting in HTML mode Tyler
2005-10-24 11:59       ` Anselm Helbig
2005-10-21 22:53 editing large files Sebastian Luque

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