gwb2ged(1)

💖 NAME 💖

gwb2ged — dump a GeneWeb database to a GEDCOM file. Yes bestie, that's the whole job. She takes your GeneWeb base and yeets it out as GEDCOM. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gwb2ged [ <base> ] [ options ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So like, gwb2ged dumps a GeneWeb database to a GEDCOM file. That's the vibe. That's the whole thing. 💅

The primary documentation of gwb2ged lives in the HTML documentation, and you can find that in the documentation directory (/usr/share/doc/geneweb on Debian systems). Please look there for complete and up-to-date documentation — fr fr, the manpage is giving summary energy, the HTML docs are the main character. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay before we get into the list, two lil rules of the road that are literally so important:

• If both options -a and -d are used, intersection is assumed. 🤝
• If several options -s are used, union is assumed. 🌈

now the options themselves, one by one, no skipping, we don't do that here:

• -help — command-line help. she's helping! 🫶
• -o <ged> — output file name (default: a.ged). name your baby. 🍼
• -charset [ASCII|ANSEL] — Set charset. Default is ASCII. ⚠️ Warning: the value ANSEL works correctly only on iso-8859-1 encoded databases. like, only then. don't come for me if you ignored this. 😭
• -o <ged> — output file name (default: a.ged). yes she's listed again, and yes we're honoring that, twice the option twice the slay 💅
• -mem — save memory space, but slower. trade-off queen. 🐌💾
• -a <1st_name> [num] <surname> — select ancestors of. going up the tree, no cap. ⬆️
• -d <1st_name> [num] <surname> — select descendants of. going down the tree, iconic. ⬇️
• -aws <1st_name> [num] <surname> — select ancestors with siblings. the whole friend group comes too. 🫂
• -s <surname> — select this surname (option usable several times). spam it, she can take it. 🔁
• -nsp — no spouses' parents (for options -s and -d). the in-laws are NOT invited. 🙈
• -nn — no (database) notes. notes? deleted. ✂️
• -c <num> — When a person is born less than <num> years ago, it is not exported unless it is Public. All the spouses and descendants are also censored. 🔒 like, the whole little family tree branch goes quiet. respect the privacy bestie.

lowkey important reminder: that <num> on -c doesn't just hide the one person — the spouses and descendants get censored too. read it twice. 💜

and that's the page!! go forth and dump your database, you've got this. 🧚✨

— with love, from the gwb2ged(1) era of the 4th Berkeley Distribution, dated 2002 October 20 🎀🦋