awk is very powerful. There is a story here http://consultuning.blogspot.com/200...

		barbolani on Jan 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ad Hoc Data Analysis From The Unix Command Line awk is very powerful. There is a story here http://consultuning.blogspot.com/2008/10/optimizing-mysql-da... where the time of a data load goes from 10 to less than 1 minute using three lines of awk.