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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Clust... by eanzenberg on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @07:50PM (#17139575)
"master a few commands"

"awk"

brb 15 years

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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Clust... by buserror on Thursday May 24, 2018 @07:21AM (#17142921)
Not really. awk is pretty simple, basically I just assume it's plain C with a huge regexp pattern 'switch' case at the top level, then I google again for the arguments to substr() :-)
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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Clust... by heyoni on Thursday May 24, 2018 @09:06AM (#17143553)
Brb in 20 years then.
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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Clust... by ccozan on Thursday May 24, 2018 @05:32AM (#17142423)
Might be true. The sed&awk from O'Reilly still lingers on my desk from time to time. And I bought it 20 years ago.
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