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I don't have your scale problems. You might care to not impose them where they don't exist.
Don't be so ridiculous. You're the one imposing arbitrary problems by saying "everything should be written in awk" then writing an example that was an order of magnitude longer in both character count and execution time than the examples that you were suggesting was wrong. All I'm doing is citing a few reasons why someone might prefer a terser pipeline but I hadn't realised this wasn't supposed to be an objective con…
a quick translation to straight awk gives cleaner code, more power, easier conversion to a script, and access to a small library of awk-based utilities I've acumulated.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24822697
You're not discussing what I've actually written.
Good day.