How to read a large (>10GB) text file using Windows Batch?

[kvsblogs]

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-IN-DO cannot seem to read more than ~1.3GB files. Is there a workaround for this problem? Please provide your valuable suggestions.

I need to able to monitor the system performance while reading a large (>10 GB) file..

[foxidrive]

This will read the file, and avoid the slowdown by listing to the console, by redirecting the output to nul.

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type "file.txt" >nul