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