Explore large files with Rowscope

Posted by linuxaria on Jan 25, 2012 10:14 AM EDT
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Sometimes it happen that: for mistakes, because you don’t rotate your logs or perhaps they growth up really quickly, that you need to analyse a large file (> 1GB) for searching a specific pattern of text. Probably you’ll go nowhere if you try to open them with vi or worst with a graphical editor like Gedit or libreoffice, and if your resource are low you risk to use all the memory and put your linux box in hang. But don’t worry, like many things in Unix/Linux, there is a specific tool that can help you in this operation: Rowscope

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