UNIX relational database management
by Rod Manis, Evan Schaffer, Robert Jorgensen · first published 1988
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If any here think fleitz is joking, please pick up a used copy of Manis, Schaffer, and Jorgensen's "Unix Relational Database Management". The authors create a relational database with little more than awk, cat, grep, od, sed, spell, tail and a bit of bourne-shell glue. After covering the basics of tables and relational theory, the authors…
on “Programming Languages are the Least Usable, but Most Powerful User Interfaces” ↗…http://hopper.si.edu/wiki/mmti/Starbase Starbase is pattered after "/rdb", a flat-file relational database adhering to the Unix-philosophy, ie., piping together small, single-purpose tools. The approach is covered in "Unix Relational Database Management" ( http://www.amazon.com/Relational-Database-Management-Prentic... ), a book which anticipated the "suckless" movement by a couple of decades ( http://suckless.org/philosophy ). It would be nice to see…
on “Tiedot - Your NoSQL document database engine powered by Go” ↗…your focus to plain Bourne sh as much as possible, moving on only after you understand what enhancements over vanilla sh Korn or Bourne-Again actually offer. Pick up Manis, Schaffer, and Jorgensen's "UNIX Relational Database Management" and work through the examples to get a feel for the philosophy behind large, complex applications written in shell. Join a Unix community (sdf.org) and try to do useful things with shell (e.g. cron-schedule…
on “Ask HN: How can I get better at bash?” ↗Old-timer here. I learned to use the unix built-ins via Unix Text Processing, Unix Power Tools, and UNIX Relational Database Management. The last of these is a commercial version of Walter Hobbs' work at RAND. The code is avalable at github. https://github.com/ironsmith58/RDB These were a great way to learn shell commands and perl. (and…
on “What is the one book that helped you the most in your career?” ↗