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115 points graderjs | 2 comments | 06 Nov 20 03:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.55s | source
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yodon ◴[06 Nov 20 04:01 UTC] No.25004762[source]▶
I've often looked for a simple human readable file-based DB-like system like this. Are there other competing packages like this?
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1. asaibx ◴[06 Nov 20 04:34 UTC] No.25004929[source]▶
There's always recutils [0] which uses a plain text database format stored in files called recfiles.

[0] https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/

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2. graderjs ◴[06 Nov 20 04:44 UTC] No.25004983[source]▶
I should add that I was inspired by recutils and considered using it before making this. The appeal of using common Unix tools to play with a database is a motivation for me