GNU Recutils: Tools for Human-Editable Plain Text Databases
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Summary
GNU Recutils is a software package from the GNU Project that provides tools and libraries for working with human-editable plain text databases called recfiles. The system stores data as sequences of records with named fields, offering a simple text-based alternative to traditional databases. The article describes the software's features and provides download links from GNU's official servers.
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· 3 pulledGNU Recutils is a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, plain text databases called recfiles.
The data is stored as a sequence of records, each record containing an arbitrary number of named fields.
Recutils can be found on the main GNU ftp server (download Recutils via HTTPS, download Recutils via HTTP or download Recutils via FTP), and its mirrors;
Article URL: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46265811
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