Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pipe Lines - A really basic question

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Philipp
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

[gentoo-user] Re: Pipe Lines - A really basic question

2010-09-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-09-10, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Am 09.09.2010 22:28, schrieb Grant Edwards: 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/

[gentoo-user] Re: Pipe Lines - A really basic question

2010-09-09 Thread 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