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Hey Everyone,

I often deal with large text files; at minimum a few GBs, with >60 million rows (cols = 4).

I was wondering what is the most suitable (and freely available) text editor to view the files?

I use sublime on a Windows computer, it is efficient for a few GBs but crashes after that size.

Any experiences/suggestions?

You can use on linux awk, sed, cat, grep, sort, unique, split
But you can't use vi, vim or nano to edit/read the files.

Some people suggest:

• https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/
  
• http://glogg.bonnefon.org/
  
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/nedit/
  

You can also program your text editor, which can view large files.
Editing large files, is a complete different story and is more difficult to solve.
The examples I've posted should also be able to edit files.

On Windows, I use Notepad++ to open 2GB files with no trouble. It supports a huge number of file types, as well.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/