bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) (09/20/89)
In article <FISCHER.89Sep17141429@rosser.iesd.auc.dk> fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes: | In article <2388@netcom.UUCP> beaulieu@netcom.UUCP (Bob Beaulieu) writes: | >I have a text file that is very large (26,000+ lines) and would like | >to break it down to 5-6 smaller files. Is there an easy way to handle | >this? I have tried vi but, it seems to hold 5000 lines in its buffer. | >The same goes for ed and ex. | | Try emacs(1). Handles files with up to 2^31 characters. And apparently allocates it all as an array at startup time. 8-) --Blair "Well, that's how it _seems_."
jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) (09/20/89)
In article <FISCHER.89Sep17141429@rosser.iesd.auc.dk> fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes: | In article <2388@netcom.UUCP> beaulieu@netcom.UUCP (Bob Beaulieu) writes: | >I have a text file that is very large (26,000+ lines) and would like | >to break it down to 5-6 smaller files. Is there an easy way to handle | >this? I have tried vi but, it seems to hold 5000 lines in its buffer. | >The same goes for ed and ex. | | Try emacs(1). Handles files with up to 2^31 characters. I don't know the Emacs to which you are referring, but GNU Emacs will have problems with files greater than 2^23 characters long. You can still edit such a file, but GNU Emacs Lisp only supports signed integers with values up to 2^23, so many normal operations will produce incorrect results. -- Joe Wells <jbw@bucsf.bu.edu> jbw%bucsf.bu.edu@bu-it.bu.edu ...!harvard!bu-cs!bucsf!jbw
jwl@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (James Wilbur Lewis) (09/20/89)
In article <2388@netcom.UUCP> beaulieu@netcom.UUCP (Bob Beaulieu) writes: >I have a text file that is very large (26,000+ lines) and would like >to break it down to 5-6 smaller files. Is there an easy way to handle >this? Try split(1). -- Jim Lewis U.C. Berkeley
ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) (09/20/89)
> In article <2388@netcom.UUCP> beaulieu@netcom.UUCP (Bob Beaulieu) writes: > >I have a text file that is very large (26,000+ lines) and would like > >to break it down to 5-6 smaller files. Is there an easy way to handle > >this? Use split(1). -- Ken -- Ken Johnson, AI Applications Institute, 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN E-mail ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk, phone 031-225 4464 extension 212 `I have read your article, Mr. Johnson, and I am no wiser than when I started.' -- `Possibly not, sir, but far better informed.'
jerry@altos86.Altos.COM (Jerry Gardner) (09/21/89)
In article <4246@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes: > In article <2388@netcom.UUCP> beaulieu@netcom.UUCP (Bob Beaulieu) writes: > I have a text file that is very large (26,000+ lines) and would like > to break it down to 5-6 smaller files. Is there an easy way to handle On Unix this is simple: split -5000 filename -- Jerry Gardner, NJ6A Altos Computer Systems UUCP: {sun|pyramid|sco|amdahl|uunet}!altos86!jerry 2641 Orchard Parkway Internet: jerry@altos.com San Jose, CA 95134 Disclaimer: I claimed something? (408) 946-6700