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). -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
