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Applications in awk? No. It's still a popular tool in the data processing realm. It's crazy to think that bash scripts using pipes is still one of the most m
by mywittyname 5y ago
Applications in awk? No.
It's still a popular tool in the data processing realm. It's crazy to think that bash scripts using pipes is still one of the most memory efficient ways of processing file-based data. Even tools like Apache Airflow just went ahead and incorporated bash for this exact reason.
- shagie 5y agoIn the back of this 80s book that I've got somewhere there's a set of programs that are 5-7 printed pages long... and written entirely in awk. A short example of that type of thing - https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~sshanbhag/awk-shell/histogram.awk https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~sshanbhag/awk-shell/histogram.awk For the time, that was likely a very reasonable solution. But for today's world, there are better solutions.