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I've never heard of Recutils before, but I've been using grep, sed, awk, cut, etc. to work with data for years. sqlite is just too much of a hassle for version
by bachmeier 7y ago
I've never heard of Recutils before, but I've been using grep, sed, awk, cut, etc. to work with data for years. sqlite is just too much of a hassle for version control and sharing. If I use sqlite, I have to export to text, commit and push, pull on the new machine, then import into sqlite. I've never run into performance issues even with thousands of records.
- CarelessExpert 7y agoAnd where you need a reasonably performant relational data store, all those cumbersome gymnastics might be worth it. But if you're working with a modest dataset where volume and performance aren't a primary concern, working straight in text is infinitely more convenient. There's a reason people do so much bulk data processing in CSV, JSON, or other easily manipulated formats.