commands.sh

recsel

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Print records from a recfile: a human-editable, plain text database.

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Options (2)

-p, --printboolean

Extract name and version field

Example: recsel {{[-p|--print]}} name,version {{data.rec}}
-e, --expressionboolean

Use "~" to match a string with a given `regex`

Example: recsel {{[-e|--expression]}} "{{field_name}} ~ '{{regex}}' {{data.rec}}"

Examples (3)

Extract name and version field

recsel [-p|--print] name,version data.rec

Use "~" to match a string with a given `regex`

recsel [-e|--expression] "field_name ~ 'regex' data.rec"

Use a predicate to match a name and a version

recsel [-e|--expression] "name ~ 'regex' && version ~ 'regex'" data.rec
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