.\"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" .\" makebdb.1 May 2002 .\" ChrisS chriss@pipex.net .\" .\" perdition .\" Mail retrieval proxy server .\" Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Horms .\" .\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or .\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the .\" License, or (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but .\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU .\" General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, .\" Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. .\" .\"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" .TH MAKEBDB 1 "30th May 2002" .SH NAME makebdb \- Make a BerkeleyDB database from stdin .SH SYNOPSIS \fBmakebdb\fP [options] bdbname .SH DESCRIPTION \fBmakebdb\fP allows a BerkeleyDB database to be formed from input read from stdin. \fBbdbname\fP is the name of the BerkeleyDB database to create, ususally the name of this file will end in .db. If the file already exists is will be overwritten. The format of the input is key, value pairs separated by a colon (:). .PP Example: .PP this is a key:this is a value .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-h, \--help: Print usage information. .TP .B \-u, \--undo: Print content of database file, one entry a line. .SH SEE ALSO The full documentation for BerkeleyDB is available on the Sleepycat Software web site (http://www.sleepycat.com) .SH AUTHOR Original GDBM code by Horms . Modified for BerkeleyDB by Chris Stratford .