[ale] Need to edit down a 2GB file.
Danny Cox
danscox at mindspring.com
Fri Apr 22 20:44:39 EDT 2005
Ben,
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 01:10 -0400, 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?
See also csplit, a context split.
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Danny
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