On 09/01/2011 12:58 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:52:08 -0700 (PDT) > Rich Shepard<[email protected]> dijo: > >> >In my experience spreadsheets are the absolute worst tool to do this job... > I agree. That's why I always use a database for a task like this.
...and yet the *ix shell environments are chock full of underrated and underutilized tools such as sort, cut, grep, sed, awk, etc., etc. that are much quicker to pick up far more appropriate for working with flat files than a DBMS. ________________________________________ Joe Shisei Niski Portland, Oregon, USA 至誠 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
