Abner Gershon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I currently collect lists of information on many > topics such as restaurants, phone lists, file folders, > slides using a database program, Lotus approach. Since > I am the only user of this information I thought I > could record this information in text files using vim > and then use gawk and sed to access this data.
awk works perfectly well with tabs. Have a look at nosql, a relational database managment system working with flat ASCII files and the unix file tools like grep awk etc. $ apt-cache show nosql Package: nosql Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 816 Maintainer: David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 2.4.2-3 Replaces: nosql-doc Depends: ash|bash (>= 2.01), rc, mawk|awk, perl (>= 5)|perl5, rcs Suggests: mawk, ash Conflicts: nosql-fastops, nosql-doc Filename: pool/main/n/nosql/nosql_2.4.2-3_i386.deb Size: 225354 MD5sum: 2add241e6afe4fe1a7303507bc95e217 Description: a Relational Database Management System for Unix. NoSQL is a fast, portable, relational database management system without arbitrary limits, (other than memory and processor speed) that runs under, and interacts with, the UNIX Operating System. . It uses the Operator/Stream DBMS paradigm described in "Unix Review", March, 1991, page 24, entitled "A 4GL Language". There are a number of "operators" that each perform a unique function on the data. The "stream" is supplied by the UNIX Input/Output redirection mechanism. Therefore each operator processes some data and then passes it along to the next operator via the UNIX pipe function. This is very efficient as UNIX pipes are implemented in memory. NoSQL is compliant with the "Relational Model". Greetings, joachim
