Stated simply, a tool to extract and process records from simple text databases
EditBy: Stated simply, a tool to Extract and process records from Simple Text databases. Stated another way, a tool to use when the standard Unix model of ``everythings a text file, and a text file consists of lines of text isnt quite enough. Specifically, when you have a text file where lines are keyword/value pairs clumped together into ``records which should be treated together as a unit, like this:

name: cat
genus: felis
young: kitten
name: dog
genus: canis
species: familiaris
young: puppy
name: horse
genus: equus
young: foal

how can you manipulate the file, without writing programs (or awk or perl scripts)? dbgrep is a general-purpose tool for manipulating such files. you can free download dbgrep 1.0 now.