BOBBY(1)

📦 version 50.0.2, in ubuntu stonking

💖 BOBBY — bestie's guide to the BOBBY(1) manual page 💖

Like, welcome to the bobby(1) manual page, section 1, User Commands. This is the whole thing, but make it ✨make sense✨.

🌸 NAME 🌸

Bobby — the GNOME app that lets you peek inside SQLite databases. It's giving very demure, very database-browser 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bobby [option]
bobby [file]...

Two ways to run her, bestie. One option, or a whole little list of files. Periodt.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Bestie. Bobby opens up SQLite database files — yep, the .db and .sqlite ones — and lets you browse the tables chillin' inside. It's so handy when you're doing app development, or when you've downloaded a database off the internet and you're like "okay but what's in here 👀".

Here's what it lets you do:

  • Scroll through tables and views of any size. Any. Size. No cap.
  • Copy rows or cells straight to the clipboard 🎀
Heads up though, bestie: as of yet, Bobby does not support viewing encrypted SQLite databases. Like, she simply cannot, and that's the situation. 🔒😭

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --help — shows you how to use her and lists all the available options. Your little "help me bestie" flag 🫶
  • --version — spits out the application's version number, so you know exactly which girl you're talking to.
  • --deps — shows the SQLite version that the application depends on. The whole dependency situation, laid bare.
  • --env — drops all the details about the application and the environment it's running from. Receipts. 📋

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Bobby was written by Hylke Bons. Iconic behaviour, honestly. 🌟

This manual page was written by Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org> for the Debian project, it was based on Bobby's --help output and can be used by other projects as well. Slay, Sven. 💖

ok that's the whole page, no notes 💀

This was GNOME Circle, June 2026, and that's the vibe check, bestie — bye! 🌈✨🦋🎀💅

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