Re: Bash

[Tim Visher]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 4:54 PM Chet Ramey <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 4/14/20 4:33 PM, Tony Esposito wrote:
> > Thanks, I'll check it out.   Just a quick question:  Is anyone working
> on a
> > database interface for bash, like one usually finds in other scripting
> > languages such as Perl (e.g. Perl DBI)?
>
> Not that I know of. Is there widespread need or desire for one?
>

I've wanted it but I use bash for things that I shouldn't. :P

Database queries. When retrieving a tuple from a relational database, there
> is no way for Bash to understand where one element of the tuple ends and
> the next begins. In general, Bash is not suited to any sort of data
> retrieval that extracts multiple data values in a single operation, unless
> there is a clearly defined delimiter between fields. For database queries
> (SQL or otherwise), switch to a language that supports the database's query
> API.

 - https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashWeaknesses