Re: Large file - Opening n head lines

Thank you Steve i think you sum up the more efficient way. Thank you. Nicolas. 😉 

Le jeu. 17 mars 2022 à 11:38, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> a écrit :

Ni Va said on Thu, 17 Mar 2022 01:41:08 -0700 (PDT)

>Hi All,
>
>Is it possible to open a Large File Vim but just only few beginning
>lines of it, edit one of these 50 first lines and then save and quit ?

head -n 50 bigfile.txt | vim -
# NOTE: Save as bigfile.new
tail +51 bigfile.txt >> bigfile.new
# NOTE: bigfile.new is now your edited file.

If you do it often, you can put it in a shellscript, and can even
rename the original to .bak.

HTH

SteveT

Steve Litt
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http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm

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