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On 2018-08-24 18:45, Lee wrote:
> On 8/24/18, Steven Penny <svnpenn AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 19:30:10, Lee wrote:
>>> In retrospect, I should have created the file some other way, but still..
>>> - grab the top 1M hosts from from
>>> http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/umbrella-static/index.html
>>> - open w/ libreoffice
>>> - select the host name column, right click & select copy (all 1 million
>>> lines)
>>> - (mintty 2.9.0 window already open) vi /tmp/hosts
>>> - i  (get into insert mode)
>>> - right click (which I have set to "paste")
>>>
>>> data is still scrolling by & it's not even up to 100K lines yet :(
>>>
>>> Is there some way to make a paste operation faster in mintty (or vim
>>> or whatever the slowpoke is)?
>>
>> Use the right tool for the job:
>>
>>     $ time awk -F, '{print $2}' top-1m.csv > hosts.txt
>>     real    0m0.686s
> 
> I'd forgotten how slow pasting is in cygwin.. otherwise I'd have just
> deleted column 1, saved as text & dos2unix'ed the file
> 
> Oh well...  I was hoping I'd set up something wrong in cygwin, but at
> least I remember why not to paste lots o lines in cygwin.

Don't save what you don't need:

$ time curl -LSs
http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/umbrella-static/top-1m.csv.zip | funzip | awk
-F, '{print $2}' > hosts.txt

real    0m6.396s
user    0m3.046s
sys     0m0.372s

If you need to save intermediate files, insert tee commands.

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