How to read large text file on windows? [closed]

Answer 1

try this...

Large Text File Viewer

By the way, it is free :)

But, I think you should ask this on serverfault.com instead

Answer 2

You should try TextPad, it can read a file of that size.

It's free to evaluate (you can evaluate indefinitely)

Answer 3

use EmEditor, it's pretty good, i used it to open a file with more than 500mb

Answer 4

While Large Text File Viewer works great for just looking at a large file (and is free!), if the file is either a delimited or fixed-width file, then you should check out File Query. Not only can it open a file of any size (I have personally opened a 280GB file, but it can go larger), but it lets you query the file as though it was in a database as well, finding out any sort of information you could want from it.

It is not free though, so it is more for people that work with large files a lot, but if you have a one-off problem, you can just use the 30-day trial for free.

Answer 5

Definitely EditPad Lite !

It's extremely fast not just while opening files, but also functions like "Replace All", trimming of leading/trailing whitespaces or converting content to lowercase are very fast.

And it is also very similar to Notepad++ ;)

Answer 6

I just used less on top of Cygwin to read a 3GB file, though I ended up using grep to find what I needed in it.

(less is more, but better.)

See this answer for more details on less: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1343576/1005039