dbconfig-load-include(1)

✨ NAME ✨

dbconfig-load-include — bestie, this is the lil parser that reads your custom-format db config files 💅 (it lives in the dbconfig-common manual, iykyk)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dbconfig-load-include [-hv] [-a] [-d[varname]] [-u[varname]]
[-p[varname]] [-s[varname]] [-P[varname]] [-t[varname]] -f format infile

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. dbconfig-load-include is a program that parses custom format include files — the ones holding all the info you need to connect a program to a database resource. literally the whole glow-up kit 🔥

its main character moment is being used by the dbconfig-common package to import database settings from packages that had pre-existing configurations and then migrated over to dbconfig-common. no cap, that's the vibe 🫶

want more tea? go look at /usr/share/doc/dbconfig-common.

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• infile — use the given config file as input. feed it the file, bestie 🍓
• -f, --format — use the given output format. default is sh. pick your aesthetic ✨
• -a, --all — include all the information in the output. this one is the default, she's already doing the most 👑
• -d, --dbname — include the dbname in the output
• -p, --dbpass — include the dbpass in the output
• -s, --dbserver — include the dbserver in the output
• -P, --dbport — include the dbport in the output
• -u, --dbuser — include the dbuser in the output
• -t, --dbtype — include the dbtype in the output
• -h, --help — display this helpful message 🥰
• -v, --version — output the version and exit 🎀

🌈 so what even IS a format 🌈

format is one of a list of include-file style formats for various programming languages. the current list includes:

• sh — /bin/sh style include file 🐚
• perl — perl parseable include file 🐪
• php — php parseable include file 🐘
• exec — run the file as a script and interpret its output 🏃♀️

fr fr, that's the entire list as it stands right now — don't go inventing new ones in your head 💀

sean finney wrote this one back in March 2005, and it ships as part of dbconfig-common — so yeah, shoutout to the original author, that's history bestie 🌸✨💜