i was given a task to create a simple database and also maintaining it with bourne shell. i must at least able to add, delete, search, update and also generate a report listing. i'm still new to unix so i'm really stuck right at the beginning. i dont know where to start at all. i've did some search in searh engines and found out the command ndbm and dbm that can be used. but i read the man and still can't figure it out how it works. can anyone out there please give me some pointers , links, examples or solutions to my problem? Thanks in advance.

www.mysql.com may be overkill for your current need but it is a great open source rdbms. easy to manage from a command line.

mysql is really too much for me. i was looking at any bourne script that i can run from unix? is there any commands ? i found this from search engine. http://www.yendor.com/programming/unix/apue/ch16.html but then i don't know how to make it work. anyone can help me out?

Hash tables ( probably what this lib is referring to ) are commonly used in system db tables like /etc/mail/access.db where simple keys and not lots of records are OK. Are those conditions acceptable ?

hie david, you got to help me out by giving more info. this is because i'm really a newbie in unix. i tried accessing the /etc/mail/access.db but i only got /etc/mail/aliases.db in here. i just want to know is there any specific commands in unix where u can create a database. and then adding datas, search,delete and update it. or do i have to write scripts for it? can someone give me examples so that i can refer to? please help a newbie here! thanks