Performance issue with parsing large log files (~5gb) using awk, grep, sed

Question

I am currently dealing with log files with sizes approx. 5gb. I\'m quite new to parsing log files and using UNIX bash, so I\'ll try to be as precise as possible. While searchi

Answer 1

As to multi-line programs on the command line,

$ awk 'BEGIN { print "File\tOwner" }
> { print $8, "\t", \
> $3}
> END { print " - DONE -" }' infile > outfile

Note the single quotes.