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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash script too slow Post 302390876 by tigta09 on Friday 29th of January 2010 09:52:10 AM
Old 01-29-2010
Bash script too slow

I have a bash script that will take approx. 130 days to complete. I am trying to grep a list of 1,144 user ID's out of 41 (1 GB each) files. The 41 files were originally one 41 G file, but that was horrendously too slow.Smilie
This is my current file:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
      for i in `cat WashFD.txt`  # 1,144 files
          do
           for b in `cat xfiles` # 41 "x??" files
            do
          echo "looking for " $i "in " $b
          cat $b | grep -i $i   >> SEID.searches
      done
    done

Currently, I am processing one of the 41 files every 4 minutes. 4 x 41 = 164 min.
164 / 60 (min/hour) = 2.73 hours per user_id. I have 1,144 user_id's multiplied by 2.73 = 3123.12 hours. 3123.12 / 24 (hours in a day) = 130.13 days.

As you can see, that is way too long to process this task. I don't know PERL but I've heard its faster. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.Smilie

Last edited by vbe; 01-29-2010 at 10:54 AM.. Reason: code tags please
 

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NAME
at - execute commands at a later time SYNOPSIS
at time [ day ] [ file ] DESCRIPTION
At squirrels away a copy of the named file (standard input default) to be used as input to sh(1) at a specified later time. A cd(1) com- mand to the current directory is inserted at the beginning, followed by assignments to all environment variables. When the script is run, it uses the user and group ID of the creator of the copy file. The time is 1 to 4 digits, with an optional following `A', `P', `N' or `M' for AM, PM, noon or midnight. One and two digit numbers are taken to be hours, three and four digits to be hours and minutes. If no letters follow the digits, a 24 hour clock time is understood. The optional day is either (1) a month name followed by a day number, or (2) a day of the week; if the word `week' follows invocation is moved seven days further off. Names of months and days may be recognizably truncated. Examples of legitimate commands are at 8am jan 24 at 1530 fr week At programs are executed by periodic execution of the command /usr/lib/atrun from cron(8). The granularity of at depends upon how often atrun is executed. Standard output or error output is lost unless redirected. FILES
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calendar(1), cron(8) DIAGNOSTICS
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