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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Mawk printf %d maxes out at 2147483647 Post 302883061 by treesloth on Friday 10th of January 2014 02:36:15 PM
Old 01-10-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by bartus11
Try using "gawk".
That is a solution, of course, but I'm using mawk because of the size of the datasets we're working with. Depending on the task, we have anywhere from 3 to 7 times better performance. So, it's been an ongoing project to convert those tasks that we can to mawk. I'd like to do so for this one as well, as it is a very time-consuming job.
 

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TASKSEL(8)						      Debian specific manpage							TASKSEL(8)

NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       tasksel install <task>

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DESCRIPTION

       tasksel shows all available tasks and allows to user to select ones to install

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