17 Feb
2021
17 Feb
'21
3:15 a.m.
On 2/16/21 3:02 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, Will Senn wrote:
Oh brother! RTFM... properly... :). Still, I'm curious about the history.
Will
To my knowledge, I've never used paste or
join outside of initially
coming across them. But, they seem to 'fit' with cut. My question for
y'all is, was there a subset of related utilities that these were
part of that served some common purpose? On a related note, join
seems like part of an aborted (aka never fully realized) attempt at a
text based rdb to me...
I use "cut" a fair bit, rarely use "paste", but as for
"join" and
RDBs, just look at the man page: "join — relational database
operator". As for future use, who knows? Could be a fun project for
someone with time on their hands (not me!).
-- Dave, who once implemented a "join" operation with BDB