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Subject: Re: [TUHS] cut, paste, join, etc.
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 > 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