/file edit content shows empty content

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hello all,

This is my first post, as I’m digging into rOS for a pilot deployment.

I fail to edit content of big .rsc files in the CLI: a ‘/file edit filename.rsc content’ provides me with an empty content, even-though the file in not empty. If I transfer the file to my laptop I can see and edit normally, but editing right within the rOS CLI doesn’t work for large files.

Suspecting my files could be the issue I tested also with files generated by rOS, with same result: files generated by ‘/system default-configuration print file=default-conf’ (8.1KiB) or ‘/export verbose file=export-verbose’ (22.7KiB) also show empty content when usinf /file edit. :frowning:
A smaller file (3.4KiB), export generated with non verbose export, is editable (although with a blank line between each line).

I’m running RouterOS 6.27 on 951G-2HnD.
I ssh to the box from the standard terminal of OSX 10.10.4 .

In a similar pattern, /file print details also fails to print content of the same ‘large’ files.

Any clue about what’s going on ?
Thanks
Fabrice

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Edit from console is limited to 4KB.

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Thanks for the answer, even though I would have prefer a solution… :open_mouth:
I suggest this information to be added in http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:System/File .

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The better way to handle this (or in addition to wiki) is to throw an error in the console saying the file is too large.

I wish there was a way to handle reading larger files from the router…