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Old 06-30-2010, 08:19 PM   #1
villumanati
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Open Large File

I have a file that is 2GB in size. I need to open this and change the possibly remove a line and or add text to it how could this be done?

for example if the file was of this structure



.....
.....
.....
.....
Total Records 10000


and i wanted to change it to

.....
.....
.....
.....
Total Records 10010



how would i do this from command line?
 
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