Hi Jérémie, > Without the quotes the shell performs splitting, maybe ksh(1) is a bit > slow at this... I'd rather download the page to a temp file rather than > put that stuff into memory. >
Ok, thank you. This is actually faster when I use a tempfile. (sed is even faster than gsed in that case) > > Just by replacing sed by gsed, on the same system? > Yes, just a simple "pkg_add gsed-4.2.2.tgz" and $ time echo $webpage | gsed -n -r 's/(.*)\"token\":\"([a-zA-Z0-9]+)\"(.*)/\2/p' Denis
