Re: [help-recutils] recsel no integrity checks?

[Jose E. Marchesi]

Hello.
    
    When I remove the invalid record from the file
    the insertion via recins succeeds.
    
    I know, adding records should be done be recins
    but sometimes it is quicker to edit something with a text editor.

One of the best features of recfiles is precisely that you don't need to
use a specialized tool like recins to modify the contents of the
database.  To edit them with a text editor is maybe the preferred way :)

    So, is it intended behavior of recsel not doing integrity checks?

Yes.  The idea is that you can use 'recfix' to check for the integrity
of the data before you run recsel.  But only if that is what you want to
do.  recins and recdel are aware of integrity by default because they
can alter the contents of the file.

The output of recfix is like the output of a compiler, and some text
editors know how to parse it.  For example, in Emacs you can run
M-xcompile and then navigate through the errors.

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