On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008, Jan Christian Dittmer wrote: | The (current) file is 1.4 GB so it will take ages to let awk chew on it | I guess. If you think awk is a bottleneck, I'd recommend using perl instead. It's waaay faster and should process your file within minutes if not faster. Ciao, Thomas -- Thomas Pundt <thomas.pundt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ---- http://rp-online.de/ ----