Command-line tool

recutils

brew/recutils

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Tools to work with human-editable, plain text data files

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install recutils

Linux

brew install recutils

Extract name and version field

recsel -p name,version data.rec

Use "~" to match a string with a given `regex`

recsel -e "field_name ~ 'regex' data.rec"

Use a predicate to match a name and a version

recsel -e "name ~ 'regex' && version ~ 'regex'" data.rec

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