Anyone have any tips for working with large text files? (~30Gb)

I'm assuming that pretty much any normal text editor is out of the question? Is a combination of sed and grep my best bet?

This almost seems like a case for Ed, man!
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

@codesections Use grep to separate them into separate files by first character?

Use /usr/bin/split to section the data into separate files?

@drwho @codesections This is the way to go.

@lord @drwho Yeah, that does seem like the most promising option. I'd thought of splitting the file, but splitting based on letter is much better than just arbitrarily. Thanks, both!