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That is a slow computer, mine is a pre-haswell i3. $ time -p sed -n '$!d;=' big10.txt 1284570 real 0.07 user 0.06 sys 0.00 time -p mawk 'END {prin

That is a slow computer, mine is a pre-haswell i3. $ time -p sed -n '$!d;=' big10.txt 1284570 real 0.07 user 0.06 sys 0.00 time -p mawk 'END {print NR}' big10.txt 1284570 real 0.04 user 0.03 sys 0.00 $ time -p gawk 'END {print NR}' big10.txt 1284570 real 0.14 user 0.13 sys 0.00 $ time -p wc -l big10.txt 1284570 big10.txt real 0.02 user 0.02 sys 0.00

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Revised 1.k. w:0:"big10.txt";v:{" ",x}'w;u:{#v[x] _ss " [^ ]"}'!#v;t:{#w[x]}'!#w #w / lines +/u / words +/t / chars Counts for words and chars are closer but still short due to inexperience using k. But it appears the script is now faster than wc. time -p wc big10.txt 1284570 10956950 64886660 big10.txt real 2.78 user 2.66 sys 0.12 time -p k 1 1284570 10956830 63602090 real 2.57 user 2.42 sys 0.14