Intersection of multiple lists/list of lists

Paul Jackson pj at sgi.com
Thu Oct 7 17:31:21 EDT 1999


aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote:
|> I don't know.  What I do know is that your original post used the magic
|> word "intersection".  To me, that implies that a flat-file database
|> approach is the wrong one.

Not necessarily.  The unix sort and join commands work just
fine to intersect flat files, if they are cleanly formatted
with that in mind.

Granted - I have drifted away from the needs of the original
poster.
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