Viewing Large Raw Log Files

how?

[Drastic]

Having trouble opening some 40+ meg raw log files - word says too large, and wordpad bugs out and eventually crashes.

Running winders, any common suggestions?

[David]

You Might try Excel. I have never tried with a file that size.

[tedster]

I use Edit Pad for most of my text needs -- including raw logs. Not sure I ever opened 40MB, but it does very well with very large text files.

[zoidberg]

Give EditPlus a try. I'm pretty sure I've viewed files around 80MB with it.

[editplus.com...]

It's an awesome text editor that is free to use.

[littleman]

If you have command line access you could just grab the bottom part of the log by doing something like this:
tail -XXX my.log > temp.log

XXX would be the number of lines you want from the bottom up.

[Brett_Tabke]

Ultraedit will also get it. A raw file viewer that many file managers have in them will get it (I use ServantSalamder religously - older versions pre adware). Ultraedit just released 9.0 today.

[msgraph]

Never had a problem with Textpad.

[Drastic]

Thanks gang. Editpad classic does the trick, and the price is right. (postcardware)

Nice tip little, that will definitely come in handy.

[mnorton]

Vi in unix/linux manages to open a 500MB log file

[count_zer0]

There's a great little replacement for the shoddily-written Windows Explorer called Windows Commander that has a fantastic text viewer in it called Lister. I have opened 200MB log files in seconds, and searches are almost instantaneous. You can't edit though...

[ktmatu]

Less [greenwoodsoftware.com] is more. This pager works well with very large text files, it's free and runs on all platforms.