DPMGR(1)

okay bestie, welcome to DPMGR(1) — she's from the Quick Database Manager household and she is so ready to help you poke at your Depot database. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

dpmgr — the administration utility for QDBM Depot, and yes she ate 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dpmgr create [-s] [-bnum num] name
dpmgr put [-kx|-ki] [-vx|-vi|-vf] [-keep|-cat] [-na] name key val
dpmgr out [-kx|-ki] name key
dpmgr get [-nl] [-kx|-ki] [-start num] [-max num] [-ox] [-n] name key
dpmgr list [-nl] [-k|-v] [-ox] name
dpmgr optimize [-bnum num] [-na] name
dpmgr inform [-nl] name
dpmgr remove name
dpmgr repair name
dpmgr exportdb name file
dpmgr importdb name file
dpmgr snaffle [-kx|-ki] [-ox] [-n] name key
dpmgr version

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this manual page is your lil' tour of the dpmgr commands, no gatekeeping 💖

dpmgr is a utility for debugging Depot and its applications, fr fr. It features editing and checking of a database, and it can be used for database applications with shell scripts. You run this command in the format shown up above, periodt.

• name specifies a database name.
• key specifies the key of a record.
• val specifies the value of a record.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

Here's the lil' summary of options, bestie. For a complete description, see the file file:///usr/share/doc/qdbm-doc/spex.html#depotcli. 👀

• -s — make the file sparse. ✨
• -bnum num — specify the number of the elements of the bucket array.
• -kx — treat key as a binary expression of hexadecimal notation.
• -ki — treat key as an integer expression of decimal notation.
• -vx — treat val as a binary expression of hexadecimal notation.
• -vi — treat val as an integer expression of decimal notation.
• -vf — read the value from a file specified with val.
• -keep — specify the storing mode for DP_DKEEP.
• -cat — specify the storing mode for DP_DCAT.
• -na — do not set alignment.
• -nl — open the database without file locking.
• -start — specify the beginning offset of a value to fetch.
• -max — specify the max size of a value to fetch.
• -ox — treat the output as a binary expression of hexadecimal notation.
• -n — do not output the tailing newline.
• -k — output keys only.
• -v — output values only.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

qdbm(3), dptsv(1), dpopen(3). Go read those too, they're giving main character energy 🫶

💜 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).

and that's the whole page, bestie — this was the Man Page for DPMGR(1), dated 2005-05-23, dropping from the Quick Database Manager set. slay, go debug something gorgeous 💅✨🎀