TL;DR mawk is fast. gawk is not. Then you might be interested in this: http://brenocon.com/blog/2009/09/dont-mawk-awk-the-fastest-and-most-elegant-big-data-munging-language/ (apologies if if you've already seent it) On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, J Cruit wrote: > Actually I quite like the awk and sed cheat sheets, still two of my > favorite tools for dealing with log analysis and pulling out fun stuff > from text. > > --j > > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:58 PM, <canito at dalan.us> wrote: >> Scroll to the bottom of page, under cheat sheets: >> >> http://www.catonmat.net/projects/ >> >> D >> >> Quoting Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com>: >> >>> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, canito at dalan.us wrote: >>> >>>> A colleague of mine was "researching" on the web, when he came across a >>>> command line cheat sheet. I thought I would share one of the commands we >>>> thought to be most cool & interesting. >>> >>> >>> Where did you find it? >>> >>> Mike -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at skerbitz.org