On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Jonathan Mast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for all the input. > > The head / tail solution would work, but isn't very scalable. I did > something similar on another file of comparable size and it took a long time > to complete. > > The line numbers are 4million to 4million + some odd hundred thousand, just > to give an idea of the size. > > The sed solution looks very tempting, but i've never used it before so > that's one approach I'll look into. > > perl -ne 'print if 20 .. 50' file looks perfect but I totally don't > understand it.... > > I'm looking to develop a general solution b/c I foresee having to do this > kind of stuff on other logs, some of which are larger than 1GB, so a > oneliner might not work so well. > > Thanks again for all the suggestions and please keep them coming!
This is an area I really don't have any experience, but I'm going to sggest that having a log file of that size might be something you want to avoid. I know some software packages will gzip the log files every so often and start a new log. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
