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RE: paste & join
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 13:11:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: paste & join
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On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: zzapper
> >Sent: 09 June 2005 11:18
>
> > Hi,
> > I've used paste for years and it's super useful.
>
> Well, I've got to agree with you there. It's that whole Unix command line
> philosophy of having loads and loads of tiny little tools, simple components
> that perform simple tasks, and a flexible environment where you can connect
> them up using pipes and backticks and whatever else, with the idea of
> quickly building more complex tasks out of reusable parts. You could almost
> have a shell-scripting RAD/gui and let people drag'n'drop boxes labelled
> things like "grep" and "cat" and "sed" and link them up using lines to
> represent pipes and fifos and stuff..... | | |
> | |
> > | W |
> > Basically it "vertically pastes" two text files together
> > !|E |
> > Can't get my head around join tho, when|and where would you use this?
> .|E| |
> ! .E |
> I would use it perhaps to ...... WAIT! WHAT'S THAT? OH NO! DUCK!
> |E |
> | E |
> | E|
> | E |
> F ||E | e
> o \ / ~ \ Z e
> > \ @$/BOOMSPLAT#
> > ### this is a Hi (. < SQUELCH!! > one ###
> /%\ \_=/~\~/ \ {
> p/ | ` &'* | / r
> p
>
> No, wait a minute, it looks like I was wrong ... That was way too big to
> be a duck!
Looks like you conveniently snipped the "# this is a hippo-free zone #"
comment from the above message...
Hey, wait, it doesn't matter. You've freed that zone from a hippo just
now, haven't you?
Igor
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