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Final Project

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We are approaching the end of the course, and as part of the curriculum, we have to pick one open source project to be our raw material for benchmarking, profiling and maybe improve it.

I decided to go with AWK, which is a great tool to manipulate files. In the early days of my career, when I had to sort and filter huge text files from the billing system, the awk was my favourite.

 Check the awk's manual.

So, here is the link to the awk repo. If you are interested in my test results, check it here. See you.

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