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> For parallel processing I'd reach for the nearest standard library at hand on the language of choice. That is a good example of what I mean: The nearest standard library is likel…

I always wondered why Mawk did not implement Gawk's extensions - or at least those that could be done without any major penalty for the rest of the code. Do you know why?

With --results or --joblog and --resume-failed GNU Parallel can do this, too.

I have done that more than once. I often end up with a solution that works on the test set but which breaks after 10 TB just because is a valid email address according RFC-822 (Who…

But that approach is potentially dangerous. See: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#Non-atomic_writes_w...