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Term used in computer science for a group of related data treated as a meaningful unit From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In computer science[citation needed], a storage record is:
In record-oriented filesystems, a record is a basic unit of device-to-program data transfers. Files in record-oriented filesystems are structured collections of records. Records may have a fixed length or variable length.
In Unix-like systems, a number of programs (for example, awk, join, and sort) are designed to process data consisting of records (called lines) each separated by newlines, where each record may contain a number of fields separated by spaces, commas, or some other character.