Accessing gdbm from shell?

[Stewart C. Russell]

Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Is there any way to access gdbm (or a compatable associative hash,
> key-value pairs, etc handler) from a shellscript?

Our own William Park has patches to do this: 
<http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/index.html#gdbm>.

> perl is an OK
> operating system, but it lacks a lightweight scripting language.

Meh. Those who do not understand Perl are doomed to reinvent it, poorly.
;-)

  Stewart
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