Awk Associative Arrays as a Streaming Group-By Engine
Awk associative arrays can replace sort | uniq pipelines for log aggregation, trading disk I/O for memory. Learn the single-pass pattern, key coercion rules, and cardinality limits.
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Awk associative arrays can replace sort | uniq pipelines for log aggregation, trading disk I/O for memory. Learn the single-pass pattern, key coercion rules, and cardinality limits.
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