Am 09.09.2010 22:28, schrieb Grant Edwards: > On 2010-09-09, Florian Philipp <li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: > >> When you look closer at `sort`, it is actually a quite impressive >> tool. It sorts in-memory for small amounts of data and switches to >> temporary files for larger. It can even compress those files to save >> disk space. >> >> And it is still faster than most "business-grade" software for >> importing data into data warehouses. >> >> Throw `cut`, `paste`, `join` and `grep` into the mix and you can >> build your own relational database system based on shell scripts ;) > > Sort of linke /rdb: http://www.rdb.com/ >
Interesting. I've just read the paper they have posted. You know what I'd really like to do? Build a graphical dataflow-centric programming language for generating shell scripts. Since dataflows are the real strength of shells, I figure it would be a neat tool for improving more complex tasks. Usually I resort to temporary files when stuff gets more complicated than a simple sequential pipe. That really hurts performance. A more abstract representation could really help in those situations. Well, I figure someone has already done this with Eclipse GMF or something like that and I just don't know it. Well, whatever. Nice to know such stuff exists, though. Thanks for the pointer ;)
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