On 11/12/06 at 9:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (After Hours)
wrote:
I have a 552 mb server log file that BBEdit 8.5.1 won't open.
Attempts to open it result in an error -116 ( (MacOS Error
code: -116)
Because of a limitation in the OS, the largest file size we can
currently read is 768M when represented as Unicode. Note the
qualification; since BBEdit represents files internally as
Unicode, a character takes up two bytes, so today's practical
limit is 384M on disk (since that'll expand to 768M when
represented as Unicode). Working around the limitation is on our
to-do list.
On 11/12/06 at 3:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Hourcle) wrote:
For log files, I'll either use grep (the unix command) to break it
into smaller chunks by time (if the timestamp is on each line), or use
the unix command 'split' to just split it into an arbitrary number of
lines.
Another possibility, depending on what you need to do with the
file, is to use "head" or "tail" to read just the beginning or
end of the file, as needed.
R.
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