How to Open/edit large files using VI? Ans : Some time you will get message like file is too large to open with VI editor or some sort of other error messages like. For Example : Warning: Tmp file too large This doesn’t mean that you don’t have enough space to open the file in /var/tmp (this is default VI editor temp location). This is because VI is having limitation in opening big files which is more than 9070000 character or file of size 2GB. This is a warning message you get from vi (i.e. the ex family of editors) that it can not track your changes in the temporary files,
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