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/ -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Am I in Milwaukee? at gmail.com
