X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=Ei7kfBA+kYKBBWij B/ml8i7JWkgxCqlxoCw2gAP5Hr76eGOXGNgfo/kcuaWfuI6I4B+M9k39vKLn8IWz DNXarhUBMoF2tyaA7TtGiDn0P97zUNkjkZYSVXr9ircP98yi4ojgo4hEPul9HRRK E1t7XLrgpb3T2HDwP/orDWHa1jk= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=6e87t0DPEu+we6UaAgQmSS 7nq1A=; b=Bg2515FUaQDTcIQ3LCub6xNKzQAxNyr3164ya6VFU1nSVAq9tUQTQw 1tG05Yvtdr5drCABZA3pd+8xp7faYEShEl2aW3qF6UHlZsmXgl/0lq9HanMJazj7 kJIShmbhOdZMx0B2q/VcQj7h5S9zfoBvi4KqaB3y1eNVHdzjlrqjE= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=canada, H*R:D*ca, mintty, Canada X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca Reply-To: Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca Subject: Re: speeding up a paste operation To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <5b80a0d3 DOT 1c69fb81 DOT 386aa DOT 8658 AT mx DOT google DOT com> From: Brian Inglis Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <9a4a9ea3-c4fc-6f60-db11-b6fe5fa6dede@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 22:36:49 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 2018-08-24 18:45, Lee wrote: > On 8/24/18, Steven Penny wrote: >> On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 19:30:10, Lee wrote: >>> In retrospect, I should have created the file some other way, but still.. >>> - grab the top 1M hosts from from >>> http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/umbrella-static/index.html >>> - open w/ libreoffice >>> - select the host name column, right click & select copy (all 1 million >>> lines) >>> - (mintty 2.9.0 window already open) vi /tmp/hosts >>> - i (get into insert mode) >>> - right click (which I have set to "paste") >>> >>> data is still scrolling by & it's not even up to 100K lines yet :( >>> >>> Is there some way to make a paste operation faster in mintty (or vim >>> or whatever the slowpoke is)? >> >> Use the right tool for the job: >> >> $ time awk -F, '{print $2}' top-1m.csv > hosts.txt >> real 0m0.686s > > I'd forgotten how slow pasting is in cygwin.. otherwise I'd have just > deleted column 1, saved as text & dos2unix'ed the file > > Oh well... I was hoping I'd set up something wrong in cygwin, but at > least I remember why not to paste lots o lines in cygwin. Don't save what you don't need: $ time curl -LSs http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/umbrella-static/top-1m.csv.zip | funzip | awk -F, '{print $2}' > hosts.txt real 0m6.396s user 0m3.046s sys 0m0.372s If you need to save intermediate files, insert tee commands. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple