kvutil 1.0.2

Comand-line key-value store

kvutil: a command-line key-value store

A command-line program written in Python 3.7 to wrap a dbm implementation in order to store key-value pairs. kvutil has no third-party requirements outside of the Python 3.7 standard library.

Usage

Insert a key+value

kv mykey myvalue

Read a value

kv mykey

List all keys

kv -l

Delete a key+value

kv -rm mykey

Installation

kvutil requires Python 3.6+.

From PyPI

pip install kvutil

From source, using Pyinstaller

First, install a Python 3.6+ environment.

Then, run the following commands:

$ #clone repository
$ git clone https://github.com/mhv2109/kvutil.git && cd kvutil
$ #use the latest pip
$ pip install --upgrade pip
$ #install pyinstaller using pip
$ pip install pyinstaller
$ # create a single-file executable using pyinstaller
$ pyinstaller --onefile kvutil/kv.py

The resulting executable can be found in dist/.

Development

kvutil requires Python 3.6+.

Development dependencies are found in requirements.txt. Install them with pip install -r requirements.txt.

Tests are run using the built-in unittest framework and tox.