GLOM(1)

💖 GLOM(1) 💖

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for glom from the General Commands Manual section (that's section 1, the "you can literally just run this" section, iykyk) — and it's giving database designer AND user interface, which is a whole lot of main character energy for one little command. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

glom — database designer and user interface 🎀

like. it designs databases. it is a user interface. it does both. slay.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

glom

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. no flags required, no args required, just glom and vibes ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page documents briefly the glom command. brief queen. 💅

fun fact: this manual page was written for the Ubuntu distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. not one. zero. we had to make one ourselves. iconic of Ubuntu fr fr.

with glom you can design table definitions and the relationships between them, plus arrange the fields on the screen. you can edit and search the data in those tables, and specify field values in terms of other fields. it's as easy as it should be. as easy as it SHOULD be. honestly a bar. 🔥

the design is loosely based on FileMaker Pro, with the added advantage of separation between interface and data. its simple framework should be enough to implement most database applications. without Glom, these systems normally consist of lots of repetitive, unmaintainable code. 😭 like imagine. repetitive. unmaintainable. not on my watch bestie.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-). a summary of options is included below. lowkey the whole point of this section. 👑

• -?, --help — show summary of options. your little "wait what does this do" bestie. 🫶
• -V, --version — show version of program. know which era of glom you're in. ✨
• -f, --file — filename of the glom project to open. yes, filename. that's the value it wants. open ur project, queen. 📂
• --debug_sql — show the generated SQL queries on stdout, for debugging. it's giving "let me see what you're actually saying to the database". super useful, ngl. 🐛
• --display=DISPLAY — X display to use. that's the display you're pointing at, passed as DISPLAY. 🌈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Daniel Holbach dh@mailempfang.de for the Ubuntu system (but may be used by others). permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. 📜

on Ubuntu and Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License (version 2) can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. go read it if you're that girl. 💜

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aaaand that's the whole page bestie 🎀 this was GLOM(1) from the General Commands Manual — yeah, the footer just says GLOM(1) and nothing else, no date, no version string, we respect the minimalism ✨ go design a database, you've got this 💖🦋🌸