Timeline for Which OS X programs can rapidly find and replace text in very large files?
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| Nov 10, 2014 at 20:06 | vote | accept | alexyorke | ||
| Dec 27, 2012 at 14:32 | comment | added | alexyorke | I know that 7MB isn't a large file, but judging by how my computer was acting, it was :o | |
| Dec 26, 2012 at 22:02 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/askdifferent/status/284056674308870145 | ||
| Dec 26, 2012 at 20:07 | comment | added | Fake Name |
@patrix - My first thought was sed too, and then I saw the 7MB comment. 7MB is not a large file. I have 1GB+ log files floating around, and even those really aren't that large. My first thought is a poorly optimized regex.
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| Dec 26, 2012 at 20:02 | history | edited | bmike♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 26, 2012 at 20:00 | history | edited | Dan J |
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| Dec 26, 2012 at 19:45 | answer | added | ultraloveninja | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 26, 2012 at 19:12 | answer | added | alexyorke | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 26, 2012 at 19:09 | comment | added | alexyorke | The file is uncompressed, and the loading of the file search/replace operation is extremely slow. I'll try BBEdit, it looks promising! | |
| Dec 26, 2012 at 19:00 | comment | added | AllInOne | As a benchmark I just used BBEdit to do a simple find and replace on a 30MB text file. Was so fast it didn't have time to draw a progress bar. This is on a 2.9 Ghz i7 iMac. | |
| Dec 26, 2012 at 18:58 | comment | added | nohillside♦ |
What is slow, the loading of the file or the search/replace operation? Using Unix commands like sed would be a good alternative for big files but if you need help here please add some examples for strings to be searched and replaced.
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| Dec 26, 2012 at 18:58 | comment | added | AllInOne | 7MB doesn't seem very large to me and 1 hour does seem like a long time. Is that compressed or uncompressed? Is the find and replace just that or are you using Regular Expressions? | |
| Dec 26, 2012 at 18:54 | history | asked | alexyorke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |