On 2010-09-10, Florian Philipp <li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote:
> Am 09.09.2010 22:28, schrieb Grant Edwards:

>>> Throw `cut`, `paste`, `join` and `grep` into the mix and you can
>>> build your own relational database system based on shell scripts ;)
>> 
>> Sort of linke /rdb:   http://www.rdb.com/
>
> Interesting. I've just read the paper they have posted.

About 12 years ago, I bought a copy and used it to track bugs and
failures for a product that was in beta.  The the installer and
node-locked licensing was awkward and slightly buggy.  Once installed,
it was pretty easy to use.  I even had a simple web UI using vanilla
cgi shellscripts, and a report generator that generated output via
LaTeX.

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