GNU recutils: Plain text database

Summary

GNU Recutils GNU Recutils is a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, plain text databases called recfiles. The data is stored as a sequence of records, each record containing an arbitrary number of named fields. The picture below shows a sample database containing information about GNU packages, along with the main features provided by Recutils. A video with a talk introducing the program can be found here. An older video, which was recorded just before releasing the first version, can be downloaded from here Some of the people involved in GNU Recutils hang out in the #recutils channel on the irc.freenode.net IRC network. You are more than welcome to join. Features Data Integrity Mandatory and forbidden fields. Unique fields and primary keys. Auto-counters and time-stamps. Arbitrary constraints. Rich Type System for Fields Predefined: integer, real, date, etc. User-defined: based on regular expressions. Advanced database facilities Joins and foreign keys. Grouping and sorting. Aggregate functions. Encryption Support Selective: individual fields can be encrypted. Password-based AES. Converters from/to other formats mdb files to recfiles. csv files to/from recfiles. Vim syntax highlight for recfiles Advanced Emacs mode Navigation mode and editing mode. Field folding. Visual edition of fields driven by types. User manual. Integration with org-mode Read data from recfiles into a table in an org-mode buffer in Emacs. Publish the resulting data. Templates Generate reports. Build your own exporters. Complete user manual Full description of the format. Documentation for the utilities. Usage examples. Easy deployment C library: librec Rich set of utilities to be used in shell scripts and in the command line. Do you like this program? Please consider making a donation. The maintainer's PayPal id is jemarch@gnu.org. Thanks! :) Downloading Recutils Sources Distribution Recutils can be found on the main GNU ftp server (download Recutils via HTTPS, download Recutil...