speeding up a paste operation

[Steven Penny]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 19:30:10, Lee wrote:
> In retrospect, I should have created the file some other way, but still..
> - grab the top 1M hosts from from
> http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/umbrella-static/index.html
> - open w/ libreoffice
> - select the host name column, right click & select copy (all 1 million lines)
> - (mintty 2.9.0 window already open) vi /tmp/hosts
> - i  (get into insert mode)
> - right click (which I have set to "paste")
>
> data is still scrolling by & it's not even up to 100K lines yet :(
>
> Is there some way to make a paste operation faster in mintty (or vim
> or whatever the slowpoke is)?

Use the right tool for the job:

    $ time awk -F, '{print $2}' top-1m.csv > hosts.txt
    real    0m0.686s


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