The desktop crashes, the process is killed, I think the OS did it. - Enda
________________________________ From: Ben Fritz <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; Enda <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 5:54 PM Subject: Re: ex large file On Monday, July 30, 2012 11:12:08 AM UTC-5, Enda wrote: > Is there a way to empty the contents of a large file? The below doesn't work: > > > $ ex -s largefile -c '1,$d' -c wq > > Killed > > > > - Enda I haven't tried it but I think that should work. What happens if you use "vim" instead of "ex -s"? Do you get an E340 for exceeding max file size (see :help limits)? When you say "doesn't work" and "killed" do you mean Vim crashes, or just seems to hang for a long time and then you gave up and terminated it? Note, probably there are more efficient ways to truncate a file using external tools instead of a text editor. Maybe something like 'echo "" > filetowipe'? -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
