find-duplicate-id-instance.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby -w
require 'set'

Entry = Struct.new :id, :instance do
  def self.parse(line)
    if /ID=\s*'([^']*)'\s+INSTANCE=\s*'([^']*)'/ =~ line
      new $1, $2
    else
      raise "Cannot parse: %p" % line
    end
  end
end

entries = Set.new

ARGV.each do |file|
  File.foreach file do |line|
    begin
      entry = Entry.parse(line)

      if entries.include? entry
        puts line
      else
        entries << entry
      end
    rescue
      # Ignore lines that don't parse
    end
  end
end

And with Robert's original:

$ /usr/bin/time -v ruby doit_orig.rb input > /dev/null
    Command being timed: "ruby doit_orig.rb input"
    User time (seconds): 16.28
    System time (seconds): 0.19
    Percent of CPU this job got: 99%
    Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:16.50
    Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
    Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
    Average stack size (kbytes): 0
    Average total size (kbytes): 0
    Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 913344
    Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
    Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
    Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 57191
    Voluntary context switches: 3
    Involuntary context switches: 1656
    Swaps: 0
    File system inputs: 0
    File system outputs: 0
    Socket messages sent: 0
    Socket messages received: 0
    Signals delivered: 0
    Page size (bytes): 4096
    Exit status: 0

So no memory savings, but faster.