Hi Robert, welcome to the list.  Opening big files is definitely tricky.  I
believe (not sure) folks on this list usually write scripts to filter and
aggregate these files, or load them into big data tools.  But I found
someone else asking a similar question with a very useful answer here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/159521/text-editor-to-open-big-giant-huge-large-text-files

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 11:04 AM Robert Garrigos <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just enrolled this list, thanks to Dan Andreescu, who let me know
> about it, and I have a question on processing clickstream data.
>
> I downloaded a file for last month clickstream data
> (
> https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/clickstream/2022-12/clickstream-eswiki-2022-12.tsv.gz)
>
> and have problems to open it and processing it.
>
> The only programme I could open it was OpenRefine. Other programmes
> (Numbers and LibreOffice) just couldn't cope with it.
>
> I can use OpenRefine to do some transformation and delete some rows I
> don't need, but even then, with some 1.5milion rows, I can not open it
> with numbers or libreoffice to do sum of the column 4.
>
> Which tools do you use to work with such big files?
>
> Thanks.
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