From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: help editing huge files in emacs
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:03:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dv9dt3$jbc$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5876e7e80603141110t3ecd0389kb5095a5636dd441e@mail.gmail.com>
Jesús Velazquez wrote:
> How can I edit a selected number of lines in a 4GB file in Emacs
> without open the whole file? Is it possible?
beg=12345
end=67890
sed -n "${beg},${end}p" big_file > excerpt
emacs excerpt
sed "${beg},${end}d;$((beg - 1)r excerpt" big_file > new_big_file
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Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-15 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-14 19:10 help editing huge files in emacs Jesús Velazquez
2006-03-15 16:03 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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2006-03-15 6:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-15 16:16 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-03-17 11:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2006-03-21 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
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