From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5217 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2005 12:45:22 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO autolearn=no version=3.1.0 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 14 Nov 2005 12:45:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 19321 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2005 12:45:16 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 14 Nov 2005 12:45:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 24739 invoked by alias); 14 Nov 2005 12:45:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 9677 Received: (qmail 24728 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2005 12:45:09 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 14 Nov 2005 12:45:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 18396 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2005 12:45:09 -0000 Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 14 Nov 2005 12:45:08 -0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EbdfP-00013B-4w for zsh-users@sunsite.dk; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:42:35 +0100 Received: from 212.84.119.241 ([212.84.119.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:42:35 +0100 Received: from david by 212.84.119.241 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:42:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk From: zzapper Subject: Using a shell database Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:41:14 +0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.84.119.241 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.652 Sender: news Hi, I have shell utility which stores information (between sessions) in a series of text files. I now want to do something more complicated, and realise I should be considering using a database. I then ran smack into a steep learning curve. Is there a shell accessible database? gdbm? Pointers please, examples if possible (I realise this thread may not be particularly zshish) -- zzapper Success for Techies and Vim,Zsh tips http://SuccessTheory.com/