Re: Large file - Opening n head lines

On 2022-03-17 01:41, Ni Va wrote:
> 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 ?

I don't think it's readily doable inside vim, but if I had such a
situation, I'd split it into the two portions like

$ sed -n -e '1,50w head.txt' -e '51,$w tail.txt' bigfile.txt

I could then edit head.txt easily and write it back out. I can then
recombine the pieces when done:

$ cat head.txt tail.txt > edited_bigfile.txt

-tim




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