Does anyone here use GNU Recutils?

[Richard Owlett]

Last week, on a Debian list, it was suggested I investigate GNU Recutils
for a current project. I've done an initial read of its manual at
[https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/html_node/index.html].
It is a well written manual with examples for most (all?) commands.

I'm looking for example of a simple project using command shell or Tcl.
DuckDuckGo and Google searches were non-productive. Google *ACTIVELY*
ignores that "recutils" *MUST* be present in any hit.

Suggestions?

TIA

[Rick Umali]

On 2020-08-07, Richard Owlett <row...@cloud85.net> wrote:
> I'm looking for example of a simple project using command shell or Tcl.
> DuckDuckGo and Google searches were non-productive. Google *ACTIVELY*
> ignores that "recutils" *MUST* be present in any hit.
>
> Suggestions?

recutils looks nifty to me!

Using GitHub, and doing search, and then sorting by 'Recently updated',
let me find this little project:

https://github.com/alvarogarcia7/link-collection

Its last update was February of this year, however. Good luck!
--
Rick Umali / rickumali.com

[Paul]

You can put double-quotes around a word to "pin" it.

"recutils"

And then the results are supposed to contain that word.

https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/

But like a kid eating vegetables, there really are no
rules, and the engine has a number of creative and
useless outcomes.

I recommend trying the search at various
times of the day, which means a desired search
could take as long as 24 hours before the
result you want, starts pouring in. The search
engine has load-shedding which it uses on a whim.

While it has exclusion capability

-Honeywell

if a company is "sponsored" or "featured", you
cannot remove it. For example, if Honeywell model ABC123
shows up multiple times on the result page, doing this

-Honeywell -ABC123 -"Honeywell ABC123"

just won't work, and the same number of irrelevant results
pour in. If it wasn't sponsored

-SparklePony

then it might work. I'm allowed to remove all the Sparkle Ponies.

Paul

[Richard Owlett]

On 08/07/2020 07:04 PM, Paul wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
>> Last week, on a Debian list, it was suggested I investigate GNU
>> Recutils for a current project. I've done an initial read of its
>> manual at
>> [https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/html_node/index.html].
>> It is a well written manual with examples for most (all?) commands.
>>
>> I'm looking for example of a simple project using command shell or
>> Tcl. DuckDuckGo and Google searches were non-productive. Google
>> *ACTIVELY* ignores that "recutils" *MUST* be present in any hit.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> TIA
>
> You can put double-quotes around a word to "pin" it.
>
>    "recutils"

As I said:{

>> Google *ACTIVELY* ignores that "recutils" *MUST* be present in any hit.

>

> And then the results are supposed to contain that word.
>
>    https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/
>
> But like a kid eating vegetables, there really are no
> rules, and the engine has a number of creative and
> useless outcomes.
>
> I recommend trying the search at various
> times of the day, which means a desired search
> could take as long as 24 hours before the
> result you want, starts pouring in. The search
> engine has load-shedding which it uses on a whim.
>
> While it has exclusion capability
>
>    -Honeywell
>
> if a company is "sponsored" or "featured", you
> cannot remove it. For example, if Honeywell model ABC123
> shows up multiple times on the result page, doing this
>
>    -Honeywell   -ABC123  -"Honeywell ABC123"
>
> just won't work, and the same number of irrelevant results
> pour in. If it wasn't sponsored
>
>    -SparklePony
>
> then it might work. I'm allowed to remove all the Sparkle Ponies.
>
>    Paul

For the reasons you stated, I was asking if a human could answer:

"... example of a simple GNU Recutils project using command shell or Tcl."

TIA