16 Feb
2021
16 Feb
'21
10:06 p.m.
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