Trying to read some log files but their big and opening in excel wont show all lines. is their a standalone program/editor that will open a large file and support searching?
uncle_bob
2:29 pm on Jun 6, 2004 (gmt 0)
Notepad?
It's what I use to read my weblogs with ;-)
soapystar
4:10 pm on Jun 6, 2004 (gmt 0)
no, theres 100's of thousands of lines. Notepad cant open files that size.
jatar_k
4:13 pm on Jun 6, 2004 (gmt 0)
I use textpad to open them but I sometimes have to chop them up first. For that we just use grep on the command line.
soapystar
5:21 pm on Jun 6, 2004 (gmt 0)
doh! split the file up, never thought of that! split it with mastersplitter, cheers!
Easy_Coder
2:02 pm on Jun 7, 2004 (gmt 0)
Excel has a limitation of something like 65K lines. MS publishes a set of Log Parsing Objects that will allow you to throw your own SQL like queries at the logs. You might want to look into that too: [microsoft.com...]
Any good text editor will do. Programmer's File Editor [simtel.net] is an antique that I still use every day, for logs and any text work. It's freeware too.
