Making use of multiple cores for running sed and awk scripts
Hi All,
After reading that the sort command in Linux can be made to use many processor cores just by using a simple script which I found on the internet, I was wondering if I can use similar techniques for programs like the awk and sed?
Previously, I used to use sort without using the above script and it used to take several minutes to sort a very large file. By default sort command only uses one core of the processor.
My school has just purchased a 16 core server with Linux and 96 GB RAM, so I am currently fiddling with it.
Now, a thought comes to my mind: Can sed and awk be used in the same way so that they make use of all the 16 cores of the processor?
I ask this because once I tried to fiddle with a huge Wikipedia file dump which I downloaded from the internet. The XML file is 30 GB in size and contains some 3.5 million articles.
I then ran this script in order to parse the individual articles and store them in separate files:
To my horror, it took about 10-12 days to complete the task. I am wondering, if it is possible to use awk in such a way that it could use all the cores of the processor and run in a multi-threaded fashion? I ran the above awk script on the same new server running Linux.
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