ged2gwb(1)

✨ NAME ✨

ged2gwb — Create a GeneWeb database from a GEDCOM file 💖

(that's the ged2gwb(1) page, from the General Commands Manual, hiii 🫶)

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ged2gwb [ <ged> ] [ options ]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so bestie, here's the tea: ged2gwb creates a starter database for use by GeneWeb, and it makes it from a GEDCOM file. that's it, that's the job. it eats GEDCOM, it spits out a baby database. slay 💅

the primary documentation of ged2gwb is in the HTML documentation, which you can find in the documentation directory (/usr/share/doc/geneweb on Debian systems). please look there for complete and up-to-date documentation. like genuinely, go look, this page is the appetizer not the meal 😌

👑 OPTIONS 👑

every single one, no skips, periodt:

• -help — command-line help. when you're lost, she's there 🫶
• -o <file> — the output database (default: a.gwb)
• -f — Remove database if already existing. no hesitation, no mercy 💀
• -log <file> — Redirect log trace to this file.
• -lf — Lowercase first names — Convert first names to lowercase letters, with initials in uppercase.
• -ls — Lowercase surnames — Convert surnames to lowercase letters, with initials in uppercase. Try to keep lowercase particles.
• -us — Uppercase surnames — Convert surnames to uppercase letters. LOUD. 📣
• -fne be — First names enclosed — When creating a person, if the GEDCOM first name part holds a part between 'b' (any character) and 'e' (any character), it is considered to be the usual first name: e.g. -fne '""' or -fne "()".
• -efn — Extract first names — When creating a person, if the GEDCOM first name part holds several names, the first of this names becomes the person "first name" and the complete GEDCOM first name part a "first name alias".
• -no_efn — Don't extract first names — [default] Cancels the previous option. we love a self-aware queen 🙈
• -epn — Extract public names — [default] When creating a person, if the GEDCOM first name part looks like a public name, i.e. holds:
  • a number or a roman number, supposed to be a number of a nobility title,
  • one of the words: "der", "den", "die", "el", "le", "la", "the", supposed to be the beginning of a qualifier,

then the GEDCOM first name part becomes the person "public name" and its first word his "first name".

• -no_epn — Cancels the previous option.
• -no_pit — No public if titles — Do not consider persons having titles as public.
• -tnd — Try negative dates — Set negative dates when inconsistency (e.g. birth after death). because sometimes the timeline is a MESS 😭
• -no_nd — No negative dates — Don't interpret a year preceded by a minus sign as a negative year.
• -udi x-y — Undefined death interval — Set the interval for persons whose death part is undefined:
  • if before x years, they are considered as alive
  • if after y year, they are considered as death
  • between x and y year, they are considered as "don't know"

Default x is 80 and y is 120.

• -uin — Untreated in notes — Put untreated GEDCOM tags in notes.
• -ds — Default source — Set the source field for persons and families without source data.
• -dates_dm — Interpret months-numbered dates as day/month/year.
• -dates_md — Interpret months-numbered dates as month/day/year.
• -charset [ANSEL|ASCII|MSDOS] — charset decoding — Force given charset decoding, overriding the possible setting in GEDCOM.

heads up bestie 🎀 — -epn and -no_efn are the defaults out of the box, so don't come for me when the behavior surprises you. and -no_epn / -no_efn exist purely to cancel their counterparts. that's the lore.

and that's the whole page!! go build your little family tree database, you're doing amazing sweetie 💖✨

this was ged2gwb(1), dated 2002 October 20th — yeah she's an elder but she still eats 🎀🦋 stay hydrated, back up your .gwb, and ily, bye 💜