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I am fairly new to batch scripting and was able to create a large text file (>10 GB) by appending a smaller 1 MB file. I am using the below FOR-IN-DO syntax to try and read it and echo the output to the DOS screen: for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%x in (dummy.txt) do echo %%x However, the FOR-I...

Yes need very large files to capture the system time taken to read the large files.
I am pretty new to batch script, I used for-in-do as I only found that command for reading the contents from file. If there is any other command that would do the read job, could you suggest any?

I just need to read dummy large file usually (>10GB) to monitor my system processing read time.
For which I have created a dummy txt file that appends a string to create a large file and then read that file.

Hi, Could some one help..I am almost running into similar problem explained above. Trying to read a txt file of 4GB size. The txt file only has a small string "This is just a sample line appended to create a big file. " appended to a big file of size 4 GB. am using below to read the above ...