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General Introduction

gawk 5.2 introduces a persistent memory feature that can “remember” script-defined variables and functions across executions; pass variables between unrelated scripts without serializing/parsing text files; and handle data sets larger than available memory plus swap. This supplementary manual provides an in-depth look at persistent-memory gawk.

Copyright © 2022 Terence Kelly
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tpkelly@cs.princeton.edu
tpkelly@acm.org
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being “Introduction” and “History”, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is available at
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.html

• Introduction
• Quick Start
• Examples
• Performance
• Data Integrity
• Acknowledgments
• Installation
• Debugging
• History