GNU Recutils: A Plaintext database format
"Recutils is a collection of tools, like recins, recdel, and recsel used to manage these recfiles/databases. They allow for all the normal basic relational database operations, typing, auto-incrementing, and even field-level crypto. All of this power is yours with the bonus that your database is a human-readable text file that you can grep/awk/sed freely"
Fred and George, Turtles in love There are hundreds of cool command line tools that have been made over the years built on the unix philosophy. Plain text is powerful, ubiquitous, and human-centric. It was also the only option for computing for quite a while. Itβs no surprise that some of the most sophisticated tools are focused on it. One such package is GNU Recutils, a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, plain text databases called recfiles.
I'd love to preserve my compositions list in a manageable text file which should act as a #SSOT.
Current status: nightmare. A mixup of #orgmode (cool), #yaml (oh no), and spreadsheets (fck!).
Yesterday I stumbled upon #recfiles and #recutils
https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
I think this could work. Please convince me not.
Choose Your Own Adventure with recutils, graphviz, and groff
When creating content for markdown tables, I usually start by writing a recfile because editing a markdown table means getting distracted by formatting, not writing.
Once I have my text the way I like it, I select and pipe through rec2csv and pandoc to create the table automatically. Which is great! Because writing markdown tables by hand is the WORST!
https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
What should I use for #HumanReadable #Configuration files?
#INI kinda sucks for a number of reasons, #JSON works but it's JSON, its derivatives are much the same but harder to parse...
Would that be a reasonably good match for #RecUtils?
#XML sucks as a user-facing anything.
I thought of s-exps but the reality of intern bombing & arbitrary execution in the Lisp reader make me rather reluctant to keep using that now.
And also that isn't perfectly portable unless I make my own reader.
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