OT: perl vs shell cmd

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:52:55AM -0300, Ben Steeves wrote:
> > > Supose I want to parse a big log file (~500MB/4mil lines), which one is
> > > faster and use less memory:
> My money's on the grep/pipe, since your grep pattern is quite simple.

Especially if you set LANG=C first (if you can).

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