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icco
Asked: 2010-09-11 13:38:22 +0800 CST

Delete a large chunk of lines from a huge file

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I have a 2.8GB sql dump file in linux. I need to delete lines 18 through 3000, but I can't open it in a text editor like vim because it's so big.

Any suggestions? I assume you could use sed or something similar, I just don't know the command.

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    I think that's what sed was designed for:

    sed '18,3000d' input.txt > output.txt

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