debian man page for makegdbm

MAKEGDBM(1)						      General Commands Manual						       MAKEGDBM(1)

NAME
       makegdbm - Make a GDBM database from stdin

SYNOPSIS
       makegdbm [options] gdbmname

DESCRIPTION
       makegdbm  allows a GBDM database to be formed from input read from stdin. gdbmname is the name of the GBDM database to create, ususally the
       name of this file will end in .db. If the file allready exists is will be overwritten. The format of the input is key,  value  pairs  sepa-
       rated by a colon (:).

       Example:

       this is a key:this is a value

OPTIONS
       -h, --help:
	      Print usage information.

       -u, --undo:
	      Print content of database file, one entry a line.

SEE ALSO
       gdbm(3)

AUTHOR
       Horms <horms@verge.net.au>

								25th December 2000						       MAKEGDBM(1)