From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29257 invoked by alias); 9 Jun 2005 17:52:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Received: (qmail 29185 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jun 2005 17:52:40 -0000 Received: from host217-40-213-68.in-addr.btopenworld.com (HELO SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM) (217.40.213.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:52:40 +0000 Received: from mace ([192.168.1.25]) by SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 18:52:45 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: "'The Cygwin-Hippo Maltreating List'" Subject: RE: paste & join Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:57:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00392.txt.bz2 ----Original Message---- >From: Igor Pechtchanski >Sent: 09 June 2005 18:12 > 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... Don't be silly, I didn't snip a thing - that falling hippo landed on it and smashed it to bits and all the letters went flying everywhere! > Hey, wait, it doesn't matter. You've freed that zone from a hippo just > now, haven't you? Look, I didn't drop _that_ one, ok? Nothing to do with me, I don't know where it came from, maybe someone flushed it out of an airliner passing overhead, I really don't know! Dust it all you like, you won't find my prints on it![*] cheers, DaveK [*] The fact that it's quite difficult (if not impossible)[**] to get a clean fingerprint off of a tonne-and-a-half of wet soggy squashed hippo entrails is neither here nor there! [**] Probably. What, you think I might have had occasion to try this at some time in the past[***] and actually be speaking from personal experience? [***] Well, ok, I might have at that. But it's still not important.[****] [****] For suitable values of 'important'. -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....