Tootfinder

"Unix philosophy is dead! Long live... something else?"
Do a lot of things badly, I guess?
https://sdomi.pl/weblog/27-manifesto-of-a-burnt-out-hacker/

from my link log —
GNU Recutils: a database management system using human-readable text files.
https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/
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GNU Recutils
Fred and George, Turtles in love There are hundreds of cool command line tools that have been made over the years built on the unix philosophy. Plain text is powerful, ubiquitous, and human-centric. It was also the only option for computing for quite a while. It’s no surprise that some of the most sophisticated tools are focused on it. One such package is GNU Recutils, a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, plain text databases called recfiles.

@… belated thanks … I still don't understand the calculations, but I'm not precious about the UNIX philosophy.
I stumbled across my old toot whilst responding to a FreeBSD/Linux post, https://www.

UNIX philosophy: do one thing well
Linux philosophy: do 11 things mediocrely, never ask users what they need or want, and if anyone ever complains, respond with "pull requests accepted [smiley face]"

Unix philosophy.
Creating a mini video management tool with #fzf, #fd, #mpv and #ytdlp .
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