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

If you process the same file multiple times, it might be faster to read it into a database, and perhaps even create an index.