CODB2JSON(1)

✨ CODB2JSON — the glow-up your codb file deserves ✨

okay so bestie, gather round, because codb2json is here to take your dusty old CANopen Profile data base (codb) files and turn them into cute, modern, extremely processing-friendly JSON. 💅✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

codb2json — convert CANopen Profile data base (codb) files to JSON format 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

codb2json input-file [-f]

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

So here's the tea ☕: codb2json takes a CANopen Profile data base (codb) file and converts it into JSON format. That resulting JSON file can then be used by canopenterm(1) to check the conformity of a CANopen CC interface against the CANopen application layer and communication profile (CiA 301). No cap. 🔥

And why JSON, you ask? Because it is robust, easy to process, and widely accepted — literally the whole package. Meanwhile the binary codb format is honestly giving antiquated and difficult to maintain 🙈. We don't do that here anymore.

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• input-file — the path to the input codb file you want to convert. Like, the file. That's the one. 🫶
• -f — format (pretty-print) the JSON output. Slay it up with nice spacing and indentation, iykyk. ✨

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Convert a codb file with compact output:

codb2json v301.codb

Convert a codb file with formatted output:

codb2json v301.codb -f

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• canopenterm(1) — go check it out, it's iconic 💜

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

Michael Fitzmayer. periodt. 👑

This manual page was written by Christopher Obbard <obbardc@debian.org> for the Debian project. 🎀

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ok that's the whole page bestie, go convert something cute 💖

CANopenTerm 2.01 — April 2026 🌸 mwah, signing off 🫶✨