Re: Bash

[Tim Visher]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:27 AM Chet Ramey <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 4/15/20 11:15 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > About 300 hits on Stack Overflow:
> > https://www.google.com/search?q=bash+sql+site:stackoverflow.com
>
> I looked at the first few of these, and they all seem to be questions about
> how to use an sql query client to read data into a variable (or variables).
> Is that the perceived need here?
>

At least that but also reading rows into an array or while reading over a
resultset kind of thing. I don't know if newer versions of bash than I'm
used to support multi dimensional arrays but that would be cool as
well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯