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)
