Processing apache logs quickly

Question

I\'m currently running an awk script to process a large (8.1GB) access-log file, and it\'s taking forever to finish. In 20 minutes, it wrote 14MB of the (1000 +- 500)MB I ex

Answer 1

gawk '{
    dt=substr($4,2,11); 
    gsub(/\//," ",dt); 
    "date -d \""dt"\" +%s"|getline ts; 
    print $1, ts
}' yourfile