My first grep
01:00 Saturday 2 Jun 07
On Windows, jujuedit will open any size text file you throw at it. It’s opened and let me easily work on files over 100mb. It’s free.
Earlier I needed to open a 41mb text file.
Smultron stopped responding so I had to (ctrl-alt-del) force quit it.
Coda stopped responding so I had to do the same.
Textedit also couldn’t cope and when the process hit 120% of CPU (really…) and 1.2gb of memory I killed that too.
It’s only 41mb! That is not large. So I went looking for something that could do the job.
BBedit (which is 14mb, Jujuedit is less than 500k)
That opened it really quickly and I actually could work on it very well. Which is where the grep came in – I needed to replace the tags with different numbers with other tags and the grep did the trick in one operation rather than very many – there are 100,000 lines in the file. Anyway, BBedit is $40 and I don’t really need to spend that on one feature. The 3 editors I have I use differently already for other things – it’s just this size feature. So – is there a free editor that would do the job?
(Textwrangler is the one. Thanks to Claire and someone else whose comment was lost)
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Man… And you call yourself a geek?
Utilities >> Terminal >> pico (for lightweight geeks)
Utilities >> Terminal >> vim (for real men who do not eat quiche)
20:07 Sunday 3 Jun 07
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Me a geek? Oh no – but some think I am. Quite why I have no idea.
(And I’d completely forgotten about pico!)
20:30 Sunday 3 Jun 07
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I was just about to mention your question about what you could do with Ubuntu. You can grep straight off the command line. And as a point of interest – what the heck kind of files do you have at 41mb? :)
20:29 Monday 4 Jun 07
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41mb is quite small – sql backups they are.
21:52 Monday 4 Jun 07
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I am consistently amazed at the endless utilities that cost $40 here and there that are built in to linux distros.
20:06 Tuesday 5 Jun 07