CBCODEC(1)

💖 CBCODEC(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the cbcodec page of the Quick Database Manager manual, and lemme tell you, this little tool is lowkey iconic ✨ it's giving "swiss army knife but make it encoding" 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

cbcodec — popular encoders and decoders 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

cbcodec url [-d] [-br] [-rs base target] [-l] [-e expr] [file]
cbcodec base [-d] [-l] [-c num] [-e expr] [file]
cbcodec quote [-d] [-l] [-c num] [-e expr] [file]
cbcodec mime [-d] [-hd] [-bd] [-part num] [-l] [-ec code] [-qp] [-dc]
[-e expr] [file]
cbcodec csv [-d] [-t] [-l] [-e expr] [-html] [file]
cbcodec xml [-d] [-p] [-l] [-e expr] [-tsv] [file]
cbcodec zlib [-d] [-gz] [-crc] [file]
cbcodec lzo [-d] [file]
cbcodec bzip [-d] [file]
cbcodec iconv [-ic code] [-oc code] [-ol ltype] [-cn] [-wc] [-um] [file]
cbcodec date [-wf] [-rf] [-utc] [str]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page is here to give you the brief rundown of the cbcodec commands, bestie. it's the sparknotes version, no cap 📖✨

cbcodec is a tool for using the encoding and decoding features that Cabin provides — that's the whole vibe. you run this command in the format shown up above, and file is the name of the input file. if you don't give it a file? don't even worry, it just reads from the standard input instead 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

here's the lil summary of options, and if you want the full complete description (the director's cut, if you will 👑), go check out file:///usr/share/doc/qdbm-doc/spex.html#cabincli.

• -d — do the decoding (unescaping) thing instead of the encoding (escaping) thing. flip the switch, reverse the vibe 🔄
• -br — break up the URL into its separate elements, like unbraiding a friendship bracelet 🎀
• -rs — resolve a relative URL, so it knows where it actually lives fr fr
• -l — output that tailing newline, because sometimes a line just needs a little send-off 💫
• -e expr — specify the input data directly, right there in the command, no file needed 💁‍♀️
• -c num — limit how many columns the encoded data gets. keep it cute, keep it contained ✂️
• -hd — parse MIME and extract the headers, in TSV format 📬
• -bd — parse MIME and extract the body, the main character of the message 💃
• -part num — parse MIME and extract a part, just that one specific piece 🧩
• -ec code — specify the input encoding, which is UTF-8 by default 🐣
• -qp — use quoted-printable encoding. note that it's Base64 by default, so this is you switching it up 🌈
• -dc — when decoding, output the name of the encoding instead of the result string. plot twist: it's about the label, not the content 👀
• -t — parse CSV and convert the data into TSV. tabs and new-lines inside a cell get deleted, sorry bestie, they're gone 💀
• -html — parse CSV and convert the data into HTML, glow-up edition ✨
• -p — parse XML and show tags and text sections with dividing headers, so everything stays organized and readable 📑
• -tsv — parse XML and show the result in TSV format. characters of tabs and new-lines get URL-encoded 🧬
• -gz — use the GZIP format, compress it up 🗜️
• -crc — output the CRC32 checksum as hexadecimal and big endian, because checksums deserve to be seen 🧾
• -ic code — specify the input encoding. by default it gets detected automatically, so it kinda figures itself out 🔍
• -oc code — specify the output encoding, which is UTF-8 by default 🌟
• -ol ltype — convert line feed characters, with unix (LF), dos (CRLF), and mac (CR). pick your line-ending era 🕰️
• -cn — detect the input encoding and show its name. name reveal moment 🎤
• -wc — count the number of characters of the input string of UTF-8 🔢
• -um — output mappings of UCS-2 characters and C strings of UTF-16BE and UTF-8. yes it's a lot, it's doing the most and we love that for it 💖
• -wf — output in W3CDTF format 📅
• -rf — output in RFC 1123 format 📆
• -utc — output the coordinate universal time, the global girly 🌍

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

qdbm(3), cabin(3) — go read those too, bestie, they're part of the lore 📚

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

QDBM was written by Mikio Hirabayashi <mikio@fallabs.com> 💜

This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). iconic of them, honestly 👑

aaaand that's a wrap! this page is from the Man Page, dated 2005-05-23, and it's the CBCODEC(1) entry — still serving after all these years 💅✨ bye bestie, go encode something 🦋