Recutils is really handy when coupled with command-line tools that return structured data. `guix search`[^] outputs data in recutils format, so if you are sear

Recutils is really handy when coupled with command-line tools that return structured data. `guix search`[^] outputs data in recutils format, so if you are searching for a database driver for Python, but want to filter out "python2" variants, and ignore uninteresting fields such as versions or dependencies, you can do: $ guix search python mysql | recsel -q 'python-' -p name,synopsis,homepage name: python-mysqlclient synopsis: MySQLdb is an interface to the popular MySQL database server for Python homepage: https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python name: python-pymysql synopsis: Pure-Python MySQL driver homepage: https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL/ name: python-peewee synopsis: Small object-relational mapping utility homepage: https://github.com/coleifer/peewee/ Without recsel, the output is 100 lines long, with lots of duplication between the Python 2 and 3 variants. [^] GNU Guix is a package manager that works on top of any GNU/Linux distribution.