October 19, 2022 at 12:22 PM The easiest way (without the use of databases and specialized programs) is to sort all the lines in the file alphabetically, then break it into several thousand pieces and archive each such piece separately. Save the first lines of each fragment in a separate file. When you need to find something, it will be enough to unpack one small archive and search in it. Disadvantages - you can search only at the beginning of lines. Pluses - with sufficiently large databases, due to alphabetical ordering, compression will be even more efficient than when archiving the entire database.