From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26199 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2005 16:40:44 -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=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham 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 16:40:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 60453 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2005 16:40:36 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 14 Nov 2005 16:40:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 13362 invoked by alias); 14 Nov 2005 16:40:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 9678 Received: (qmail 13350 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2005 16:40:29 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 14 Nov 2005 16:40:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 59441 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2005 16:40:29 -0000 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (64.233.184.204) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 14 Nov 2005 16:40:28 -0000 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i7so1252898wra for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:40:26 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=U3m03GXkAsdLEdvPcGnqdMdRYD/+2B7KxPm6xm0sMPqw4gjNdcounrCtyUkT8ZY4Y8WwNVdYzMI95upBi8Nlw97gTr2oJUBMYwFqjek/d01kejeF//NXvhoVXddYcbFD6JVXMCjj2UNK0J6wbaJts2TGACJFCjE909/Ur6V08NA= Received: by 10.65.20.6 with SMTP id x6mr3717928qbi; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:40:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.22.16 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:40:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:40:26 -0500 From: Ian Langworth To: zzapper Subject: Re: Using a shell database Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: On 11/14/05, zzapper wrote: > I have shell utility which stores information (between sessions) in a ser= ies of text files. I now > want to do something more complicated, and realise I should be considerin= g 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