[wellylug] simple super basic bash question

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On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:57:06 -0800 (PST), Brent Wood wrote:
> 
> --- Mark Signal <mark at databackup.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> > I had never heard of paste
> 
> If you do lots of shell scripting & don't use perl there are lots of little
> text processing/formatting commands available. Good luck finding them though
> :-(
> 
> tr, sed, cat, cut, paste, merge, grep & awk at least...
> 

If you think of cut as 'select', grep/sed as 'where', join as 'join',
you've got a relational database from bash.  It does actually work
too, for very simple problems.

Brilliant tutorials for some of the text tools here:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/l-dw-linux-lpir22-i.html?S_TACT=104AHW03&S_CMP=EDU
(one section only)

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/l-dw-linux-gnutex-i.html?S_TACT=104AHW68&S_CMP=LINUXLPBB

Cheers
Tony

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