Thursday, June 7, 2012

Re: What is the largest file I can edit using vim?

On Thursday, June 7, 2012 11:49:02 AM UTC-5, Dominique Pelle wrote:
> Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > forgett about vim, on linux just do:
> > tail -n +10 file.sql  | head -n +10 > trimmed.sql
>
> Many people posted solutions with head and tail that don't work.
>

Just curious...I've never used head or tail. But why won't they work in this situation? This seems like exactly what they're meant to accomplish; retrieving only a specific part of a file.

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