Re: [Help-bash] databases for bash and other data structures

[Chris Down]

On 2013-03-12 23:30, Jesse Molina wrote:
> Chris Down wrote:
> >Have you considered using flat files with a directory hierarchy?
>
> I had already written a little csv table with multiple rows.
> Iterating through the file with "read", until I found the right row
> via index and then "read COLUMN1 COLUMN2 COLUMN3..." is easy enough,
> if performance abhorrent, but updating the rows just got ugly and
> from there I decided that stabbing myself in the eye with a fork
> wasn't a good idea.

Well, you're using the wrong tool for the job; it's to be expected. I am only
holding myself back from having a nervous breakdown about the idea because you
stated that this is simply an educational exercise :-)

Chris