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		Upvoter33 on June 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Running Awk in parallel to process 256M records I've always wanted to build a parallel awk. And call it pawk. And have an O'Reilly book about it. With a chicken on the cover. pawk, pawk, pawk! This is a true story, sadly.

ketanmaheshwari on June 3, 2020 | [–]

I too wanted to do almost exactly the same. I want to port awk to GPUs by hacking its code and adding OpenCL tags at right places. Someday!

elmolino89 on June 3, 2020 | | [–]

Name is already taken by python awk substitute:

https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk

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