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Editing a huge file - Vim or something else?

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Mar 15, 202619197 views

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I am Vim fan for most of my editing purposes. But these days when I have to open huge file ~1-2 gigs, its is vert slow to load and perform operations What are the other ways I can edit such huge files efficiently

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vim you can :set binary first. or use hexedit. as https://stackoverflow.com/questions/699785/edit-very-large-sql-dump-text-file-on-linux

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