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How long does cat take per line? [on hold]
Cat with Headers and Line Numbers?How to cat a file for a certain number of seconds?cat files with directorycat file to udp, pt 2: send 1 udp packet per ^C-delimited lineDoes cat never read from terminal?How to cat two heredocs?/bin/cat: Argument list too longWhy does head; tail on a large file sometimes take a long time and sometimes not?What does cat of a tar archive show?What is the equivalent (programmatically) of cat /dev/something > file.txt
.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty margin-bottom:0;
If I had a txt file of, say, 4,000,000 lines, how long would the command cat take on that? What about 4,000,000,000? Is there an easy way of calculating this time?
performance cat io
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If I had a txt file of, say, 4,000,000 lines, how long would the command cat take on that? What about 4,000,000,000? Is there an easy way of calculating this time?
performance cat io
edited Apr 5 at 1:15
Jeff Schaller♦
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asked Apr 5 at 1:14
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put on hold as too broad by muru, Michael Homer, Stephen Harris, Rui F Ribeiro, Prvt_Yadv 2 days ago
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The vacuous answer istime cat file, but this is too broad for anyone to answer. Are you reading from a floppy drive, tape drive, spinning rust, SSD, RAM disk, etc? Are you writing to the screen, a tape drive, a satellite connection, etc? What other activity could distract either I/O?
– Jeff Schaller♦
Apr 5 at 1:30
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Also, how long are your lines? There could be a multi-thousand-fold difference just from that.
– Michael Homer
Apr 5 at 1:51
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Also the output device;cat file > /dev/nullis quicker thancat file... especially if you're on a 9600 baud tty!
– Stephen Harris
Apr 5 at 2:00
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If I had a txt file of, say, 4,000,000 lines, how long would the command cat take on that? What about 4,000,000,000? Is there an easy way of calculating this time?
performance cat io
edited Apr 5 at 1:15
Jeff Schaller♦
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asked Apr 5 at 1:14
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If I had a txt file of, say, 4,000,000 lines, how long would the command cat take on that? What about 4,000,000,000? Is there an easy way of calculating this time?
performance cat io
performance cat io
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asked Apr 5 at 1:14
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edited Apr 5 at 1:15
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put on hold as too broad by muru, Michael Homer, Stephen Harris, Rui F Ribeiro, Prvt_Yadv 2 days ago
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The vacuous answer istime cat file, but this is too broad for anyone to answer. Are you reading from a floppy drive, tape drive, spinning rust, SSD, RAM disk, etc? Are you writing to the screen, a tape drive, a satellite connection, etc? What other activity could distract either I/O?
– Jeff Schaller♦
Apr 5 at 1:30
1
Also, how long are your lines? There could be a multi-thousand-fold difference just from that.
– Michael Homer
Apr 5 at 1:51
1
Also the output device;cat file > /dev/nullis quicker thancat file... especially if you're on a 9600 baud tty!
– Stephen Harris
Apr 5 at 2:00
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The vacuous answer istime cat file, but this is too broad for anyone to answer. Are you reading from a floppy drive, tape drive, spinning rust, SSD, RAM disk, etc? Are you writing to the screen, a tape drive, a satellite connection, etc? What other activity could distract either I/O?
– Jeff Schaller♦
Apr 5 at 1:30
1
Also, how long are your lines? There could be a multi-thousand-fold difference just from that.
– Michael Homer
Apr 5 at 1:51
1
Also the output device;cat file > /dev/nullis quicker thancat file... especially if you're on a 9600 baud tty!
– Stephen Harris
Apr 5 at 2:00
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The vacuous answer is
time cat file, but this is too broad for anyone to answer. Are you reading from a floppy drive, tape drive, spinning rust, SSD, RAM disk, etc? Are you writing to the screen, a tape drive, a satellite connection, etc? What other activity could distract either I/O?– Jeff Schaller♦
Apr 5 at 1:30
The vacuous answer is
time cat file, but this is too broad for anyone to answer. Are you reading from a floppy drive, tape drive, spinning rust, SSD, RAM disk, etc? Are you writing to the screen, a tape drive, a satellite connection, etc? What other activity could distract either I/O?– Jeff Schaller♦
Apr 5 at 1:30
1
1
Also, how long are your lines? There could be a multi-thousand-fold difference just from that.
– Michael Homer
Apr 5 at 1:51
Also, how long are your lines? There could be a multi-thousand-fold difference just from that.
– Michael Homer
Apr 5 at 1:51
1
1
Also the output device;
cat file > /dev/null is quicker than cat file... especially if you're on a 9600 baud tty!– Stephen Harris
Apr 5 at 2:00
Also the output device;
cat file > /dev/null is quicker than cat file... especially if you're on a 9600 baud tty!– Stephen Harris
Apr 5 at 2:00
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The vacuous answer is
time cat file, but this is too broad for anyone to answer. Are you reading from a floppy drive, tape drive, spinning rust, SSD, RAM disk, etc? Are you writing to the screen, a tape drive, a satellite connection, etc? What other activity could distract either I/O?– Jeff Schaller♦
Apr 5 at 1:30
1
Also, how long are your lines? There could be a multi-thousand-fold difference just from that.
– Michael Homer
Apr 5 at 1:51
1
Also the output device;
cat file > /dev/nullis quicker thancat file... especially if you're on a 9600 baud tty!– Stephen Harris
Apr 5 at 2:00