[ale] Need to edit down a 2GB file.

[Jay Loden]

If you literally only need the top part of the file, you could use the "head" 
command and specify the number of lines, like this: 
head -n 1000 mbox > newmbox  (for 1000 lines)
then you'd need to check to make sure it ends somewhere safe, like the end of 
a message, of course.

or you could use the 'split' command, to split the file into chunks, and use 
an editor to remove the stuff you don't need, and cat them all back together. 

-Jay

On Friday 15 April 2005 06:10 am, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
> I have a KMail MBox mail file that grew to over 2GB accidently and it
> apparently can't handle that. As soon as i try to dl new email the
> program exits and moving emails to another folder then compressing the
> folder is not reducing its size. Can someone recommend a common linux
> editor that will let me lop off the top of the file and save it so it'll
> be below my, apparent, 2Gb limit?
>
>     thanx & later,
>
>        Ben Scherrey
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