RE: paste & join

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>]

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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