[TUHS] cut, paste, join, etc.
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Wed Feb 17 07:02:47 AEST 2021
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, Will Senn wrote:
> 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
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