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✨ ace(1) ✨ the Interactive Perl client for ACEDB 💖

Okay bestie, so this is the manual page for ace, the interactive Perl client for ACEDB 🧚. Gather round, we're doing this! 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

ace - Interactive Perl client for ACEDB 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ace [options] [URL]

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Okay so AcePerl is an object-oriented Perl interface for the AceDB database, and it is literally iconic 👑. It gives you the goods for connecting to remote AceDB databases, running queries, fetching ACE objects, and updating databases 🔥. The programmer's API is compatible with the JADE Java API, and it's interoperable with the API used by BoulderIO 🌈. Major slay energy, no cap ✨.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -host <hostname> — Server host, and the default is localhost 🏠
  • -port <port> — Server port, and the default is 200005 🔌
  • -path <db path> — Local database path. There's no default, so you gotta bring your own 🗂️
  • -url <url> — Server URL (see below 🔗
  • -login <user> — Username 🙋
  • -pass <pass> — Password 🔐
  • -tcsh — Turns on T-shell completion mode 🐚
  • -save — Saves database updates automatically, so you don't have to babysit them 💾
  • -exec <command> — Runs a command and then quits, no drama 🚪

Okay so ACE also respects the environment variables $ACEDB_HOST and $ACEDB_PORT, if they're present 🌷. You can edit the command line with the cursor keys and emacs style key bindings, which is so giving main character energy 💅. Use the up and down arrows (or ^P, ^N) to access the history 📜. The tab key completes partial commands ✨. In tcsh mode, the tab key cycles among the completions. Otherwise, pressing tab a second time lists all the possibilities 👀.

You can use multiple -exec switches to run a sequence of commands, or separate multiple commands in a single string with semicolons 🧁:

ace.pl -e 'find Author Thierry-Mieg*' -e 'show' ace.pl -e 'find
Author Thierry-Mieg*; show'

🌈 Server URLs 🌈

  • rpcace://hostname:port — RPC server 📡
  • sace://hostname:port — Socket server 🧦
  • tace:/path/to/database — Local database 📁
  • /path/to/database — Local database 📁

Usernames can be provided as sace://user@hostname:port 🫶

⚠️ Heads up, the original page also has some leftover junk in here: Name "readline::rl_special_prefixes" used only once: possible typo at ./ace line 161. Unknown option: version Usage: ./ace [options] [URL] Interactive Perl client for ACEDB. That's a Perl warning and a usage message that got pasted into the page, so it's not really documentation 💀.

🍓 AUTHOR 🍓

This manual page was created using help2man for the Debian distribution by Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> 🧚‍♀️. It can be used freely for any other distribution 🦋.

Ily, stay iconic, and read the manpage bestie 🎀💖 (October 2013, NAME(1)) 🌸✨

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