Dealing with databases from Shell scripts has always been clunky. Using custom shell built-ins we can develop an idiomatic, safe , and performant way of accessing the db from the Shell.
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Most of us working on unix would know about the shell wildcards (* and ?). These can be very useful while working with files. For example, *.db would match any file ending with .db in