From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Luque Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: editing large files Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:56:18 -0500 Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <87irvp4hjh.fsf@gmail.com> References: <877jc5oq7r.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130000437 20810 80.91.229.2 (22 Oct 2005 17:00:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:00:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 22 19:00:29 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETMiR-0005oe-KD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:59:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETMiR-0007Lf-4B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:59:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ETMhr-0007Gt-Th for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:58:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ETMhn-0007FD-Q0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:58:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETMhn-0007FA-O3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:58:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1ETMhh-00064s-T1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:58:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ETMgG-0005Dy-Fa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:57:16 +0200 Original-Received: from s0106001111ddbc6e.wp.shawcable.net ([24.77.72.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:57:16 +0200 Original-Received: from spluque by s0106001111ddbc6e.wp.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:57:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s0106001111ddbc6e.wp.shawcable.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cgjLZHd+mvRSINdcPDyYT8tuvao= X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:30478 Archived-At: Tim X 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