NAME¶
mdb-export - Export data in an MDB database table to CSV format.
SYNOPSIS¶
mdb-export [-H] [-d delimiter] [-R row_delim] [[-Q] | [-q quote [-X escape]]] [-I] [-D format] database table
DESCRIPTION¶
mdb-export is a utility program distributed with MDB Tools.
It produces a CSV (comma separated value) output for the given
table.
Such output is suitable for importation into databases or spreadsheets.
OPTIONS¶
- -H
- Supress header row
- -Q
- Don't wrap text-like fields (text, memo, date) in quotes.
If not specified text fiels will be surrounded by " (double
quote) characters.
- -d
- Specify an alternative column delimiter If no
delimiter is specified, table names will be delimited by a ,
(comma) character.
- -R
- Specify a row delimiter
- -I
- INSERT statements (instead of CSV). You must specify the
SQL dialect.
- -D
- Set the date format (see strftime(3) for
details)
- -q
- Use to wrap text-like fields. Default is ".
- -X
- Use to escape quoted characters within a field.
Default is doubling.
- -N namespace
- Prefix identifiers with namespace.
NOTES¶
ENVIRONMENT¶
- MDB_JET3_CHARSET
- Defines the charset of the input JET3 (access 97) file.
Default is CP1252. See iconv(1).
- MDBICONV
- Defines the output charset to use for the SQL file. Default
is UTF-8. mdbtools must have been compiled with iconv.
- MDBOPTS
- semi-column separated list of options:
- •
- use_index
- •
- no_memo
- •
- debug_like
- •
- debug_write
- •
- debug_usage
- •
- debug_ole
- •
- debug_row
- •
- debug_props
- •
- debug_all is a shortcut for all debug_* options
SEE ALSO¶
gmdb2(1) mdb-hexdump(1) mdb-prop(1) mdb-sql(1)
mdb-ver(1) mdb-array(1) mdb-header(1)
mdb-parsecsv(1) mdb-schema(1) mdb-tables(1)
HISTORY¶
mdb-export first appeared in MDB Tools 0.1.
AUTHORS¶
The
mdb-export utility was written by Brian Bruns.
BUGS¶
Memo fields are allowed to contain a newline characters, the current program
does nothing about this.
