On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 20:39 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > In SQL you join tables. If it's indexed it's fast. > Can you do this using text files from the prompt? > > Example: > I'd like to investigate the most popular RSS readers Debian offers. > > $apt-cache search rss | cut -d' ' -f1 > rss.txt > $wget http://popcon.debian.org/main/by_vote.gz > > I'd like to "filter" by_vote.gz to just the package names > in "rss.txt". In SQL this would be a join. I'd like it > to be "fast". Do I have to do this in SQL? There is (was?) a product called "/rdb", which may be what you are looking for. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. 4 degrees from Vladimir Putin
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