Database

Recfile Bibliography for TeX

Store your bibliography in a recfile database, then extract any part with make. For example, you could store books like this in bibliography.rec: 1%rec: book 2%key: slug 3 4slug: thinkingexperience 5author: H. H. Price 6title: Thinking and Experience 7year: 1953 8publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge 9 10slug: …

Recfiles

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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

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 $database 2recins -f Name -v Chess …