Editors that can handle +750MB text files

[BarkingGhostar]

Normally I use something like Notepad++ but when I tried to open a text file that was 750-800MB in size I got warned that it was too big to open. When I tried Word (Office 2018) it failed, which I concluded was too large of a file.

The file itself is a cat'd file of data exports from a Unix environment. Imagine a couple of hundred text files generated in a Unix environment and catted into one monolithic file. To digest this in an Excel tool the text file must be MS-DOS compatible. Usually I just open and save in Word, but this file is too big.

Also, I cannot find how to open a Unix text file in Notepad++ and save it as an MS-DOS compatible text file even if Notepad++ could open such a large file.

Ugh, this isn't Monday either.

 

[lxskllr]

Do you need to open it in an editor? Perhaps you can use a cli program to parse the file and get the needed data. Otherwise, I'd try to be on a 64bit system, and try a few different programs. I'd expect more of "serious" programs like vi or emacs than the more friendly gui programs.

 

[IronWing]

WordPad can handle bigger files than Notepad, might try that.

 

[Skunk-Works]

Wordpad is no different in terms of opening large files than Open Office or Libre Office. Believe me, I tried it. I have some dictionary files that are massive and I have a hard time opening them. I have no idea how they made them in the first place. I guess one doesn't really need to look in the file, but rather have it pointed in your password cracking program.

 

[TheRyuu]

Sublime Text[1]?

[1] https://www.sublimetext.com/

 

[zeekr]

On Windows I use EmEditor. It has no problems opening even multi-gigabyte files.

 

[Anubis]

editpad lite should be able to do it

https://www.editpadlite.com/

 

[TiLapiot]

My own experience was a 3.29Gb textfile, and
I would suggest PilotEdit Lite 11.4.0 🙂
which allow modifying+saving...

If you just need to view huge textfiles without modify them,
here are some not-so-bad-choices :
BareTail 3.50a
Large Text File viewer 5-2u
Glogg TextEditor 1-0-3

 

[sonitravel09]

You can also handle it using Editplus.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

You could also unix2dos the file on the Linux machine to convert it to an MSDOS text file without opening it, and then import it into Excel directly.

Probably.

That's going to make Excel pretty chewy though.