[UFO Chicago] awkward admission

[Larramore, Greg]

That's very cool!

Thanks for sharing that.

Your recent experience encourages me to become more familiar with it, too.



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From: ufo [mailto:ufo-bounces at ufo.chicago.il.us] On Behalf Of Brian Sobolak
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 9:19 PM
To: ufo at ufo.chicago.il.us
Subject: [UFO Chicago] awkward admission


(Sorry for the partial transmission on the last msg)

So at one of the last meeting we discussed awk.  We probably discuss awk at most meetings.  But somehow this time it stuck, and I revisited it.

What fun!  It was neat to parse through 4+GB of text to count all of the words and look for patterns.  I know plenty of tools have this, but the minimalism of awk is refreshing.

I used it today to parse some large XML files and it was much faster + easier than other techniques.

SO it's a nice new tool in my toolkit.  Since I tend to be working with large files now more than databases, it's a hit.

brian


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