Q Uncommon hate other people come in after to clean up their waste. : Disgust: Anyway, I have a program that created a text based log file. My predecessor has left the institution as append (vs. overwrite), and as a result, I have a 1GB file I need to see. We have nothing on that site can handle this.
Anyone know of freeware / shareware is this?
Many thanks.
Re:This stuff is normal in Unix/Linux-land.
Simple tools like tail and the ability to pipe output to append files is a peice of cake. The easiest thing in the world.
check out the unix utility stuff for Windows.
Re:If the guy was appending instead of overwriting, does that imply the first bajillion lines of the text file are not useful to you?
Write a java program to delete the first part of the file, or just spit out what the last line is?
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Originally posted by: guy
Unfortunately at work I'm windows based … as for scanning it by eye, it is sequential, and I'm looking for something right at the end of the file.
That's what tail is for 
But I don't know what the equivalents of those might be for windows … unless you can install cygwin.
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
tail and split are included
Re:I don't know that you're going to find a super-fast editor for anything that large. No matter what you use, it'll always be limited by the speed of the hard drive.
Re:UltraEdit is a great program. Worth every penny. I have used it for programming for about 5 years now. It has alot of features yet is fast and doesn't feel bloated.
Re:Yeah, that's the one, sorry, mis-typed UltraEdit-32 is the one that I found. Now to find the big stick to use on my predecessor for not overwriting the file.
Re:Found one that works, albeit really slowly … Ultra Editor – 32. Handles files up to 4 GB and has a 45 day shareware window.
Thanks for the help.
Re:Googled for "text viewer large file" and went to the first match. (http://www.topshareware.com/Large-Text-File-Viewer-download-11000.htm) Large File Text Viewer.
"This program was designed for viewing large (>1GB) text files. It uses little memory and is able to open a gigabyte file instantly."
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Unfortunately at work I'm windows based … as for scanning it by eye, it is sequential, and I'm looking for something right at the end of the file.
That's what tail is for
But I don't know what the equivalents of those might be for windows … unless you can install cygwin.
Re:Unfortunately at work I'm windows based … as for scanning it by eye, it is sequential, and I'm looking for something right at the end of the file.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
How so if I can't open the file first?
At least on unix systems there is a utility called split, which does exactly that.
A better question may be how do you expect to manually review a 1GB file … not the technical aspects of how to view it but how to find anything useful reviewing that much data by eye. I'm hoping you plan to look at just enough so that you can write a script to parse out the relevant bits.
Re:How so if I can't open the file first?
Re:Why not split it into something more reasonable?
Re:Nope, freezes every time … think it might be an amount of RAM issue … can't load a 1GB file into 512 MB RAM … ?
Re:Wordpad can't handle it?
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