dbverify(1)

💖 dbverify — check a Lifelines database 💖

okay so this is the General Commands Manual entry for dbverify(1), and honestly? she’s a little diagnostic bestie and we love her for it. 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

dbverify — check a Lifelines database ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dbverify [ options ] file

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

This manual page documents briefly the dbverify command. Short and sweet, periodt. 💅

The dbverify program is a companion program of the Lifelines genealogy software, and is used to check an existing lifelines database for errors. So if your database is giving “something’s off” energy, this is the girly who goes in and checks it. 🔍💖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -a — perform all checks (does not include fixes) ✅
• -g — check for ghosts (names/refns) 👻
• -G — check for & fix ghosts (names/refns) 👻🔧
• -i — check individuals 🧍
• -f — check families 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
• -F — alter any bad family lineage pointers (to _badptr) 🛠️
• -h — command-line help 🆘
• -s — check sours 🍋
• -e — check events 🗓️
• -x — check others 🌀
• -l — check database structure 🏗️
• -m — check for records missing data entries 🕳️
• -M — fix records missing data entries 🩹
• -D — fix bad delete entries 🗑️
• -n — noisy (echo every record processed) 📣

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Christian Perrier (bubulle@debian.org), for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 💜

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mwah 💋 this page is serving Lifelines 3.2.0, dated 2019 Sep, and it’s the dbverify(1) manual — iconic, no cap. 🎀✨