OT: perl vs shell cmd

[Ben Steeves]

On 6/14/05, Dave Mitchell <davem at iabyn.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:14:16PM +0700, Beast 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.

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