in reply to get the line of ith occurrence of '>' without OPENING THE FILE

If you're on some kind of UNIX you can probably do

split -b100M < hugefile
This will create files xaa, xab, xac etc, each with 100 MB of data from the file.

"man split" is your friend.

/Hacker
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