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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help in editing a file Post 302604991 by bobby1015 on Tuesday 6th of March 2012 11:57:44 AM
Old 03-06-2012
Need help in editing a file
I have a file which has 10 million records in it. When am trying to edit the file with vi, the following error occurs:

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"file1" Value too large for defined data type

Is there any way that I can edit this file without using vi? Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks
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cdbs-edit-patch

CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)                                              CDBS Documentation                                              CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)

NAME

       cdbs-edit-patch - create or edit a CDBS simple-patchsys.mk patch

SYNOPSIS

       cdbs-edit-patch patchname

DESCRIPTION

       cdbs-edit-patch  creates  or edits patches for use by the CDBS simple-patchsys.mk patch system.  For more information about CDBS please see
       the documentation under /usr/share/doc/cdbs/.

       When patchname exists, cdbs-edit-patch will set up a temporary working source tree, apply all patches up to and including patchname in lex-
       icographic  order,  and  spawn  an  interactive shell for the developer.  The developer can then edit files in this working tree.  When the
       developer is done and exits the shell, cdbs-edit-patch updates patchname to reflect the changes made.  To abort the process from the inter-
       active shell, exit with a nonzero exit value.

       When patchname does not exist, cdbs-edit-patch will assume that a new patch should be created.  As with the above scenario, cdbs-edit-patch
       will first create a temporary working source tree and apply all patches up to the new patch in lexicographic  order.   When  the  shell  is
       quit, cdbs-edit-patch will create patchname.

AUTHOR

       CDBS  was  written  by Colin Walters and others.  cdbs-edit-patch was written by Martin Pitt.  This manual page was written by Peter Eisen-
       traut based on the dpatch-edit-patch(1) manual page.

SEE ALSO

       CDBS documentation in /usr/share/doc/cdbs/, /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk, dpatch-edit-patch(1), quilt(1)

Debian                                                              5 Feb 2006                                                  CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)
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