$ curl -O http://www.textfiles.com/etext/FICTION/lesms10.txt $ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marioroy/mce-examples/master/other/wc.pl $ chmod 755 wc.pl $ rm -f lesms10_big.txt $ for i in `seq 1 200`; do cat lesms10.txt >> lesms10_big.txt; done $ ls -lh lesms10* -rw-r--r-- 1 pmuser staff 3.1M Nov 13 19:27 lesms10.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 pmuser staff 623M Nov 13 19:39 lesms10_big.txt # Read once before testing to be fair for 1st and subsequent wc/wc.pl. # Sorry, I didn't want to go through the trouble clearing OS cache. $ cat lesms10_big.txt >/dev/null