A Database that Follows the Unix Philosophy GNU recutils

In this video I introduce you to one of the most under rated GNU project I have ever seen called GNU recutils.

Let me know what you think and if there is anything specific you would like to learn about.

[code]

Wow that's amazing! I need to learn how to make relational tables so I can start migrating my very old databases from MS Access, LO Base and more recent Sqlite3 to recfiles, being editable with Vim <3, under control versions with git <3, accessing from the terminal <3 and even using FZF! Love it!

[pizzabeerengineering]

Slick dude, some cool ideas peppered into otherwise basic presentation. I like the periodic table example. Trying to find a good use for recutils myself.

[professorlamp]

Holy balls, this is beautiful. Previously I would've favoured sqlite as the "lightest" alternative for storing data that also needs to be queryable but this trumps it for me. I love when you find hidden unix gems like this. Definitely adding it to my arsenal

[Egeexyz]

Huh, I guess a formated flat file is the simplest "database" out there. I'm really surprised this isn't used in more places. The syntax looks pretty sane too, reminds me a bit of yaml.

[DaraulHarris]

I've fallen head over heels in love. Thank you!

[qqii]

This is pretty neet, thanks for sharing. It's just a shame there isn't more tooling built around this.

[jochenillerhausji]

Thanks for sharing, but I can't see any advantages when compared to `yaml` and `yq`

[BryanJenks]

oh damn thats awesome. When i move back to arch i can see so many uses for this. OH like my flash script?! if you can keep file paths as a record field you could even link media with fla.sh 😮️

[CaribouDataScience]

How is the Emacs rec-mode video coming along?

[humm]

Have you taken a look at Plan 9’s ndb as general purpose database?

[daveshouldaine]

thank you very much, I will check it out tomorrow!
btw there are some times when audio goes wrong and I hear a word twice

[Danoboy]

Awesome video! Do you know where I can get documentation of the format template for recfmt? How did you manage to get the ascii boxes?

[proximacentaur]

08:59 The formatting script is just excellent. Thank you! BTW what colorscheme are you using here?

[TheJamesconroy]

I will have to check this out.

You should give pinfo a try. It's like info, but better. It's especially better if you haven't memorized the emacs keybindings info wants you to use.

[fitzpatrickmathemati]

Are you aware of any tools that could do statistics with records? I'm thinking about writing my gradebook with using this format, so I'd like to do things like calculate the mean, median, and standard deviation on an exam. Thanks for sharing!

[pladimir_vutin]

Hey what's the name of your vim's theme?

[lineber]

I like the nroff example. Is that in zsh only? I figure you are using zsh instead of bash.

[drishalballaney]

if you want something even simpler, Comma-separated values or CSV is the way ;)

[LabiaLicker]

Whoa! Any actually good piece of GNU software....I'm in shock....Surely this is a mistake?