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This thingy opens 2.3 million lines file in something under a minute. Excel will choke, I guess.

Still unix toolset - awk, grep, sort - beats both for most tasks and huge data sets.

Yeah, GR chocked on a 7GB file the other day, had to chop it up in the shell before importing each in turn.

That's when the export/import processing steps feature comes in handy.

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