Recfiles

{{Short description|Plain text database format}}

{{Infobox file format

| name = recfiles

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| caption = GNU Recutils

| extension = .rec

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|_nomimecode = yes

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| genre = Data interchange

| free = yes

| open = yes

| url = {{URL|https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/}}

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recfiles is a file format for human-editable, plain text databases.{{cite web

|url=https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/Purpose.html

|work=GNU Recutils Manual

|title=Purpose

|access-date=2020-12-02

|date=2019-01-03

|first=Jose E

|last=Marchesi

}}{{cite web |url=https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/ |title=GNU Recutils |author=James Tomasino |date=2020-01-26 |access-date=2020-02-09}}

{{Infobox software

| title = GNU Recutils

| name = GNU Recutils

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| author = Jose E. Marchesi

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| released = {{Start date and age|2010|12|03}}

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| latest release version = 1.9

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2022|04|16}}{{cite web |title=Index of /gnu/recutils |url=https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/recutils/ |website=ftp.gnu.org |access-date=11 April 2023}}

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| repo = {{URL|https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/recutils.git}}

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| programming language = C

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| license = GNU General Public License

| website = {{URL|https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/}}

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Databases using this file format can be edited using any text editor. Recfiles allow for basic relational database operations, such as typing, auto-incrementing, as well as a simple join operation.

Recutils is a collection of tools, like recfmt, recsel, and rec2csv used to work with recfile databases.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/|title = GNU Recutils - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation}}

Various software libraries support the format.{{cite web |url=https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-recutils/2019-04/msg00000.html |title=Relational pipes and GNU Recutils |author=František Kučera |date=2019-04-08}}{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/maninya/python-recutils/|title = Python-recutils|website = GitHub|date = 12 January 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/aisamanra/rrecutils/|title=Aisamanra/Rrecutils|website=GitHub|date=13 January 2022}}