Need to find a good log viewing software

[duhh]

Hey, I have some enormous log files I need to access on a daily basis. They run about 300 MB. MS word, wordpad and excel all fail horribly at trying to view these files. It takes roughly 30 minutes to get the file open, and thats just a horrendous waste of time.

Ultraedit worked great at viewing these files, but alas, ultraedit is not free. I am wondering if anyone has a suggestion of a viewer than can handle such large txt files and is also freeware.

PC is not too bad, P4 1.7 w/ 128MB of RAM. Im sure a nicer setup would help but that is not an option.

 

[oboeguy]

If it's 300MB/file I can't imagine why you'd want to view it yourself. Perhaps you're looking for occurrences of a certain string within the file? The *nix "grep" command is your friend in that case.

 

[Nothinman]

Yea, if I was you I'd write a script to parse out all the 'noise' that you don't care about and then just look through the stuff that's of interest.

gvim is free if you know vi, if you turn off the swap file option it'll probably work just fine. I just can't blieve you only have 128M memory.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Logs aren't really meant for viewing in a text editor, use grep/tail/etc.

 

[meksta]

use "less"...which is really more