Question

I am tangling with a project involving enormous text log files on the server and it is getting logistically difficult moving files around so I can get at them with my main programming editors. It has become clear that I need to install editors on the servers. Installing full devel tools is out of the question, and frankly, I’m a bit stumped as I guess I’ve mostly been using Visual Studio and Eclipse so long I just don’t know much about the current state of editors out there.

I sure bet someone here on StackOverflow does!

I need something that can deal with large (multi GB) text files with efficiency and decent multiline regular expression support is a must. Other than those features, minimum footprint and bloat is better than more features. Windows Server 2008 R2. Of course free, or really reasonable price like shareware. Anyone have some suggestions?

Answer 1

Microsoft Log Parser:

Log parser is a powerful, versatile
tool that provides universal query
access to text-based data such as log
files, XML files and CSV files, as
well as key data sources on the
Windows® operating system such as the
Event Log, the Registry, the file
system, and Active Directory®.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=890cd06b-abf8-4c25-91b2-f8d975cf8c07&displaylang=en

I have used it for parsing huge log files

Some examples: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910447