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No, not crazy: https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-... ~10 years ago I parsed 15GB of Windows binary logs with xargs, grep and strings(1) in minutes. Minutes. Less than 1/4 of an hour.