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recsel

Print records from a recfile: a human-editable, plain text database. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/recutils.html.
  • Extract name and version field:
    recsel -p name,version {{data.rec}}
  • Use "~" to match a string with a given regular expression:
    recsel -e "{{field_name}} ~ '{{regular_expression}}' {{data.rec}}"
  • Use a predicate to match a name and a version:
    recsel -e "name ~ '{{regular_expression}}' && version ~ '{{regular_expression}}'" {{data.rec}}

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