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Founder of AwkLab. Unix Philosophy advocate. Focusing on AWK, benchmarking, and scripting.
Apr 9 · 12 min read · 1. The Unix pipeline Every Unix user knows the pipe operator. Typing ls | wc -l, and two independent programs exchange data as if they were designed together. That simplicity reflects a deliberate des
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Mar 14 · 23 min read · The AWK scripting language emerged from Bell Labs in 1977, named for its creators Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan. AWK is still widely used today, as a core tool it is available on a
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Feb 10 · 7 min read · In his book Unix: A History and a Memoir, Brian Kernighan recounts his favorite grep story from the early days of Unix. Someone at Bell Labs asked whether it was possible to find English words composed only of the letters formed by an upside-down cal...
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Feb 1 · 7 min read · Modern data pipelines most often fail at their beginning, not their end. A malformed record, an unexpected delimiter, or an encoding anomaly can cause otherwise robust processing engines to abort after consuming significant computational resources. T...
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