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A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage ...
On some older Unixes I've used, there was a command called bfs, for big file scanner. It could open text files in read-only mode and you could move around in them like in an editor.
vram22
on March 8, 2016
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Also, for files too large for an editor, Unix split and csplit commands can help break it into chunks; edit them, then join back with cat.
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