From: Dennis Boone <drb@msu.edu>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] cut, paste, join, etc.
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 16:06:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210216210632.B7AF1339771@yagi.h-net.msu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:33:05 -0600.) <3987726c-db35-79fc-00cb-5d979cfaf53a@gmail.com>
> 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...
My copy is hiding from me, so I can't be sure, but iirc Bourne's _The
Unix System_ (978-0-201-13791-0) had a section on this sort of "text
database" and may have discussed the `join` command.
De
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-16 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-16 20:33 Will Senn
2021-02-16 21:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-16 21:15 ` Will Senn
2021-02-16 21:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-16 21:06 ` Dennis Boone [this message]
2021-02-17 1:08 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-02-17 1:16 ` Will Senn
2021-02-17 1:43 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-02-17 2:26 ` Will Senn
2021-02-17 4:08 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-02-17 10:14 ` John Gilmore
2021-02-17 14:52 ` Andrew Hume
2021-02-17 23:58 ` Dan Cross
2021-02-17 20:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-22 5:57 ` Tomasz Rola
2021-02-17 3:29 ` John Cowan
2021-02-18 20:20 Brian Walden
2021-02-18 20:41 ` Anthony Martin
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