I want to find a piece of text in a large xml file and want to replace with some other text. The size of the file is around (50GB). I want to do this in command line. I am looking at PowerShell and want to know if it can handle the large size.
Currently I am trying something like this but it does not like it
Get-Content C:\File1.xml | Foreach-Object {$_ -replace "xmlns:xsi=\"http:\/\/www\.w3\.org\/2001\/XMLSchema-instance\"", ""} | Set-Content C:\File1.xml
The text I want to replace is xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
with an empty string ""
.
Questions
- Can PowerShell handle large files
- I don't want the replace to happen in memory and prefer streaming assuming that will not bring the server to its knees.
- Are there any other approaches I can take (different tools/strategy?)
Thanks