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GNU Awk memory allocation
I'm having problems with a Gawk script that looks something like this: ----------------------------------------- while ( (getline < input_file) > 0 ) { # skip file header n_nr++ if ( n_nr < 3 ) continue summary_detail_array=$2"|"$3 summary_detail[summary_detail_array]+=$1... -
Join command
I'm trying to join this file: 1|304500001||1|0|304500001|(...) 2|304500002||2|0|304500002|(...) 3|304500003||3|0|304500003|(...) 4|304500004||4|0|304500004|(...) 5|304500005||5|0|304500005|(...) 6|304500006||6|0|304500006|(...) 7|304500007||7|0|304500007|(...) 9|304500008||9|0|304500008|(...)...- Romeu
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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AWK performance
In my earlier scripts, I could add a bunch of loops and arrays without a significant impact on run time. In other words, the most time consuming operation was to scan the file, and I could add more and more validations to each line with only a minor impact on performance (one script has more...
