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.TH COOKIETOOL 6 "May 19, 2001"
.SH NAME
cookietool \- program to operate cookie (fortune) database
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B cookietool
.RI [ options ] " <database>"
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the \fBcookietool\fP command.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it
has some plaintext documentation, see below.
.PP
\fBcookietool\fP is a program that should be used to sort, clear and
maintain cookie database in standard fortune(6) format, i.e. list of
\fBcookies\fP delimited with line containing a single percent
('\fB%\fP') char. \fBcookietool\fP can now understand another formats
and convert
cookie database between them.
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see
the documentation in \fI/usr/share/doc/cookietool\fP directory
.TP
.B [nothing]
Shows summary of options.
.TP
.B \-c
case sensitive comparisons.
.TP
.B \-d[0-3]
how fussy about word delimiters? (default: 2)
.TP
.B \-b
delete cookies that are 'abbreviations' of another, too.
.TP
.B \-p
passive, don't delete anything.
.TP
.B \-s[l|w|<sep>|s]
sort cookies; looking after last line only; looking after last word
only; starting after the last <sep>, e.g. '\-s\-\-'; by size.
.TP
.B \-a
treat 'abbreviations' as doubles (i.e. delete them from the database,
too).
.TP
.B \-f[0-3]
input file format \- \-f3: cookies are separated by '%%' lines; \-f2:
cookies are separated by '%' lines (DEFAULT); \-f1: each line is a
cookie; \-f0: each word is a cookie.
.TP
.B \-F[0-3]
force output in a different file format, see \-f.
.TP
.B \-o
overwrite directly without temporary file. CAUTION NEEDED.
.SH SEE ALSO
\fBcdbdiff(6)\fP, \fBcdbsplit(6)\fP
.SH BUGS
None known.
.SH AUTHOR
Upstream author and Aminet cookietool.lha package with AmigaOS binaries
uploader is Wilhelm Noeker, <wnoeker@t-online.de>. Unix manpages
(including this one) and makefile are maintained by Miros/law L. Baran
<baran@debian.org>. This manual page uses many excerpts from the
original README file.