Dear Monks,

I hope you can help. I need a way faster way of creating files. Here's what I am doing. I am looking for duplicate entries in web server log files. These are very large files so to find duplicates I am opening a log file reading a line from that log file and creating a string/filename based on the data on that line. If a file with this name already exist I know I have found a duplicate log entry, otherwise I create a file with this name. I was doing ... 
system( "echo $filename > lines/$filename" );

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... this is way slow. I found that doing ... 
open( FH, ">lines/$filename );
print FH $filename;
close FH;

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... is faster. I was hoping that a Monk out there might even know a super-way-faster way of doing this, my boss is way impatience :( I hope I didn't use "way" way too much :) I got this surfer dude thing going on ... very strange.

In reply to Super fast file creation needed by Plankton

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