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

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-09-09, Florian Philipp <lists@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/

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