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Sometime in the last decade, I installed Mathematica which involved downloading and running a 1GB shell script!

Naturally I was curious what such a shell script consisted of, but most tools choked on it. IIRC, even vim and less couldn't open it, but emacs could.

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I believe emacs chunks large files and then lazily loads them to enable this. I remember having to mess around with a specific mode to get it to work in the past, but I think it's included in base emacs now.

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