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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Please suggest alternative to grep Post 302652503 by pludi on Thursday 7th of June 2012 08:11:01 AM
Old 06-07-2012
grep, sed, and awk would all do the same thing: read the first file line by line, and check the second file for occurrences each time, chugging through approximately 75 GB (15*5) of data.

One way it could be done faster would be a script/program that reads the second file (which looks like the wanted information is in the same place on every line), creates a hash/list of the numbers and according line numbers, and the only has to go through the first file once.
 

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SPLIT(1)						      General Commands Manual							  SPLIT(1)

NAME
split - split a file into pieces SYNOPSIS
split [ option ... ] [ file ] DESCRIPTION
Split reads file (standard input by default) and writes it in pieces of 1000 lines per output file. The names of the output files are xaa, xab, and so on to xzz. The options are -n n Split into n-line pieces. -l n Synonym for -n n, a nod to Unix's syntax. -e expression File divisions occur at each line that matches a regular expression; see regexp(7). Multiple -e options may appear. If a subex- pression of expression is contained in parentheses (...), the output file name is the portion of the line which matches the subex- pression. -f stem Use stem instead of x in output file names. -s suffix Append suffix to names identified under -e. -x Exclude the matched input line from the output file. -i Ignore case in option -e; force output file names (excluding the suffix) to lower case. SOURCE
/src/cmd/split.c SEE ALSO
sed(1), awk(1), grep(1), regexp(7) SPLIT(1)
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