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RE: paste & join
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'The Cygwin-Hippo Maltreating List'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 18:52:20 +0100
- Subject: RE: paste & join
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
----Original Message----
>From: Igor Pechtchanski
>Sent: 09 June 2005 18:12
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: zzapper
>>> Sent: 09 June 2005 11:18
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I've used paste for years and it's super useful.
>>
>> Well, I've got to agree with you there. It's that whole Unix command
>> line philosophy of having loads and loads of tiny little tools, simple
>> components that perform simple tasks, and a flexible environment where
>> you can connect them up using pipes and backticks and whatever else,
>> with the idea of quickly building more complex tasks out of reusable
>> parts. You could almost have a shell-scripting RAD/gui and let people
>> drag'n'drop boxes labelled things like "grep" and "cat" and "sed" and
>> link them up using lines to represent pipes and fifos and stuff.....
>> | | | | |
>>> | W |
>>> Basically it "vertically pastes" two text files together
>>> !|E | Can't get my head around join tho, when|and where would you use
>>> this?
>> .|E| |
>> ! .E |
>> I would use it perhaps to ...... WAIT! WHAT'S THAT? OH NO! DUCK!
>> |E |
>> | E |
>> | E|
>> | E |
>> F ||E | e
>> o \ / ~ \ Z e
>>> \ @$/BOOMSPLAT#
>>> ### this is a Hi (. < SQUELCH!! > one ###
>> /%\ \_=/~\~/ \ {
>> p/ | ` &'* | / r
>> p
>>
>> No, wait a minute, it looks like I was wrong ... That was way too big
>> to be a duck!
>
> Looks like you conveniently snipped the "# this is a hippo-free zone #"
> comment from the above message...
Don't be silly, I didn't snip a thing - that falling hippo landed on it
and smashed it to bits and all the letters went flying everywhere!
> Hey, wait, it doesn't matter. You've freed that zone from a hippo just
> now, haven't you?
Look, I didn't drop _that_ one, ok? Nothing to do with me, I don't know
where it came from, maybe someone flushed it out of an airliner passing
overhead, I really don't know! Dust it all you like, you won't find my
prints on it![*]
cheers,
DaveK
[*] The fact that it's quite difficult (if not impossible)[**] to get a
clean fingerprint off of a tonne-and-a-half of wet soggy squashed hippo
entrails is neither here nor there!
[**] Probably. What, you think I might have had occasion to try this at
some time in the past[***] and actually be speaking from personal
experience?
[***] Well, ok, I might have at that. But it's still not important.[****]
[****] For suitable values of 'important'.
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