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If it is a bottleneck shelling out is not a great solution...

• pestaa 13y ago
  Shelling out for each piece of data is indeed not great. Shelling out for batch-processing loads of data is on the other hand great.
  • mjn 13y ago
    Yes, and that's the workload convdate is intended for: it batch-converts an entire column of a tab-delimited file. The larger crush-tools suite is intended for unix-style batch processing of tabular data, but fills in some functionality that the classic set of POSIX tools (cut, sort, paste, join, etc.) didn't cover.
• deleted 13y ago
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