From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: help editing huge files in emacs Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:03:03 -0700 Message-ID: References: <5876e7e80603141110t3ecd0389kb5095a5636dd441e@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142438730 20321 80.91.229.2 (15 Mar 2006 16:05:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:05:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 15 17:05:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJYUh-0003pr-EH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:05:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJYUg-0000Kk-Jc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:05:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJYUR-0000HY-4s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:04:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJYUP-0000DY-FP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:04:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJYUP-0000DP-AT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:04:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FJYYr-0005w9-5F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:09:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FJYTt-0003al-F2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:04:13 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:04:13 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:04:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <5876e7e80603141110t3ecd0389kb5095a5636dd441e@mail.gmail.com> 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:33794 Archived-At: 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 -- Kevin Rodgers