recfiles is a file format for human-editable, plain text databases.
Recutils is a collection of tools, like recfmt, recsel, and rec2csv used to work with recfile databases.
[5][6][7] Data are stored in text files with empty lines separating records.
Fields within a record are lines starting with their name and a colon; it is possible to wrap long entries.
Recutils from the GNU Project are a set of free command line utilities to process recfiles.