Database

Recfile Bibliography for TeX

Requirements Recfiles Makefiles Store your bibliography in a recfile database, then extract any part with make. For example, you could store books like this in bibliography.rec: %rec: book %key: slug slug: thinkingexperience author: H. H. Price title: Thinking and Experience year: 1953 publisher: Harvard University …

Recfiles

1 min read · data database

Create: 1database=games.rec 2touch $database 3for g in Vojvodina Saboter Carcassonne Chess; do 4 recins -r "Name: $g" -r "Played: yes" $database 5done Read: 1recsel $database 2query=Carc 3recsel --quick=$query $database 4 5game=Vojvodina 6recsel --expression="Name = '${game}'" $database Update: 1recset …

Recfiles Extended Example

2 min read · data database recfiles

Requirements Recfiles Create Make a database for your boardgames, specifying only one field and value: 1database=games.rec 2n=Name 3g=Vojvodina 4touch ${database} 5recins -f ${n} --value ${g} ${database} 6recsel ${database} Insert a few more, with the estimated playtime: 1recins -f Name -v Saboter -f Playtime -v 30 …

Rundown: sed

1 min read · csv substitute replace tip shell maintenance recfiles database text sed

Change a CSV header from=number to=quantity sed -i "1 s///" "".csv Remove crap from bash history 1sed -i -r '/([^ ]{100,})\s?$/d' $HISTFILE Combine many recfiles of different types into one 1sed '1i\ ' *.rec > all.rec Combine many recfiles of the same type into one 1recinf -d -t ${type} ${one}.rec > ${all}.rec 2sed …