Is Perl faster than bash?

Question

I have a bash script that cuts out a section of a logfile between 2 timestamps, but because of the size of the files, it takes quite a while to run.

If I were to rew

Answer 1

it depends on how your bash script is written. if you are not using awk to parse the log file, instead using bash's while read loop, then changing it to awk will improve the speed.