16 Feb
2021
16 Feb
'21
10:02 p.m.
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