Another reason that I love my mac: it can handle 1.3 GB log files easily with built in tools. I recently received a huge log file in zipped form from a co-worker with the warning “good luck opening it, textpad won’t open it.”
After unzipping it to the full 1.3 GB size I was able to open it using the built in Apple log viewer Console.
I ended up mostly using the terminal and tools like cat, less, grep, etc… to quickly find what I wanted and view the log lines surrounding the events I was interested in.
No problem.
so, the “another reason” why you love your mac is because beneath all the eye-candyness it’s actually an UNIX box.
Ok, i can relate to that. 😉
Yeah:) Basically it’s all the power of a Unix box, but with a prettier, easier to use interface, that runs Word/Excel/Powerpoint (when you have to), iTunes, Aperture, Photoshop, etc…
All the power of Unix and all the apps of Windows. Or at least some of each:)
Another file utility I found useful when dealing when HUGE files is UltraEdit. I know it’s not a log viewer, but it worked for me with files of 5 GB…
That’s when using Windows, though.
@Gux: good to know!! I don’t use Windows any longer so I’m not up-to-date with good apps for Windows.
Thanks!