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GNU Recutils is a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable,
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text-based databases called recfiles. The data is stored as a sequence of
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records, each record containing an arbitrary number of named fields.
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Advanced capabilities usually found in other data storage systems are
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supported: data types, data integrity (keys, mandatory fields, etc) as well
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as the ability of records to refer to other records (sort of foreign keys).
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Despite its simplicity, recfiles can be used to store medium-sized
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databases.
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Recfiles are human-readable, human-writable and still they are easy to parse
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and to manipulate automatically. Obviously they are not suitable for many
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tasks (for example, it can be difficult to manage hierarchies in recfiles)
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and performance is somewhat sacrificed in favor of readability, but they are
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quite handy to store small to medium simple databases.
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WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
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