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Mar 4, 2013 at 17:58 answer added alexis timeline score: 7
Mar 4, 2013 at 17:51 comment added alexis sed reads through the data once. With head|tail the whole data stream must be copied twice (once by each process).
Mar 4, 2013 at 2:09 vote accept LasEspuelas
Mar 4, 2013 at 0:37 comment added LasEspuelas @manatwork it takes approximately double the time than sed with the head|tail combination for me. Unless I am doing the timings wrong.
Mar 4, 2013 at 0:32 answer added Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' timeline score: 1
Mar 3, 2013 at 20:46 comment added Kevin Some stats on the opposite (extracting lines from the middle) suggest sed will be your best bet.
Mar 3, 2013 at 19:42 answer added Stéphane Chazelas timeline score: 13
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Mar 3, 2013 at 18:46 answer added vonbrand timeline score: 1
Mar 3, 2013 at 18:41 comment added vonbrand @manatwork, I believe the processing is mostly inconsequential against reading/writing 50GiB...
Mar 3, 2013 at 18:40 comment added vonbrand @jordanm, it definitely is much slower (it has to gulp down the whole file, and set up the data structures it uses to represent the file in memory).
Mar 3, 2013 at 17:38 comment added manatwork Somehow uglier, but may perform better: head -$((linenum1-1)) input.txt > input.temp; tail -n +$((linenum2+1)) input.txt >> input.temp.
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Mar 3, 2013 at 17:02 answer added watael timeline score: -1
Mar 3, 2013 at 17:01 comment added jordanm the ed line editor may be faster.
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