[lnonymous]

What's the best/fastest way to skim through or do a CTRL+F on a 60GB .txt or .json file?

[Hermit64]

When having a file this big, your regular options are gonna struggle. You can't open a file this big in regular software like Excel or notepad because you (I doubt) don't have 60+GB of RAM.

You can create a simple python script that opens the file, reads it line by line, then prints any matches.

If you want to go the proper way, you need to import your file in an SQL database. MySQL workbench has everything you need to get going. Databases engines are incredibly fast for going through large amounts of data like you have.

[GenFe1]

What's the best/fastest way to skim through or do a CTRL+F on a 60GB .txt or .json file?

use grep and search keyword what you are looking for. thats way easy

[moopdoop]

ripgrep if you can figure out how to get that running, you can find it on github

[MoistMaker]

grep that shitttttt

[Sukob]

bash: cat file.txt | grep "search term"
windows powershell: get-content file.txt | findstr -i "search term"

Although if it is very large and you have some programming skill, write a parser in C, or just search using regular expressions in chunks of the file.

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[DredgenSun]

REgular expressions man

[defaultiiik]

What's the best/fastest way to skim through or do a CTRL+F on a 60GB .txt or .json file?

use grep and search keyword what you are looking for. thats way easy

the king's answer
windows also has alternative - FINDSTR /?