From: Ian Langworth <ian.langworth@gmail.com>
To: zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Using a shell database
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:40:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6c719b90511140840y51af6415l9cb41de51e42cd4d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a01hn1lvq1aotintmjva52kfcabk1gvdhb@4ax.com>
On 11/14/05, zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
You don't want to bring databases into your shell script. You want to
begin to use a tool that's better-suited for the job, like Perl,
Python or Ruby.
--
Ian Langworth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-14 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-14 12:41 zzapper
2005-11-14 16:40 ` Ian Langworth [this message]
2005-11-15 11:05 ` zzapper
2005-11-15 12:12 ` Marc Chantreux
2005-11-15 12:19 ` zzapper
2005-11-15 13:27 ` Marc Chantreux
2005-11-14 20:51 ` Marc Chantreux
2005-11-15 18:32 ` Clint Adams
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