On 6/14/05, Dave Mitchell <davem@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves