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Not really. If you write SQL statements for a living, the former is more readable, if you sysadmin for a living, then the latter wins. A sysadmin will use tools
by andmarios 11y ago
Not really. If you write SQL statements for a living, the former is more readable, if you sysadmin for a living, then the latter wins. A sysadmin will use tools like find, sort and head very frequently, whilst SQL statements will be fairly rare.
- blowski 11y agoThey are both technical, but 'order by bytes desc' has got to be more expressive than 'sort -nr'. It's almost natural human English, whereas the latter doesn't express anything. That said, I don't know how much time it would genuinely save. As with most of these tools, you shouldn't be installing them on production servers, so you still have to know Bash anyway.