gwc(1)

💖 gwc(1) — the glow-up edition 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the General Commands Manual and it's literally all about a lil program called gwc. pull up a chair, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're doing this.

✨ NAME ✨

gwc — Create a GeneWeb database 🧬

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gwc [ options ] [ files ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so gwc creates a starter database for use by GeneWeb. that's the whole vibe. it's giving database-birth energy. 👑

📌 bestie, the primary documentation of gwc is in the HTML documentation, which you can find in the documentation directory (/usr/share/doc/geneweb on Debian systems). please please please go look there for the complete and up-to-date documentation — that's the main character doc, this manpage is more like the little sister. 💅

💜 OPTIONS 💜

one bullet per option, no skipping, we're thorough in this household:

• -help — command-line help 🆘 (yes she has a built-in help, iconic)
• -o <file> — output database (default: a.gwb) 📁 (if you don't say where, she just puts it in a.gwb, no cap)
• -c — only compiling
• -f — Remove database if already existing 🔥 (she will simply delete it, so know that before you run her)
• -stats — Print statistics 📊
• -nc — No consistency check 🙈 (skipping the vibe check, fr fr)
• -cg — Compute consanguinity 🩸
• -sep — Separate all persons in next file
• -sh <int> — Shift all persons numbers in next files 🔢
• -ds — set the source field for persons and families without source data
• -mem — Save memory, but slower 🐢 (the tradeoff is real, she trades speed for RAM)
• -nolock — do not lock database 🔓

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• gwc2(1) — her sister page, go read it too bestie, family matters 💖

okay and that's the whole page!! literally every option, every default, every flag, all present and accounted for, nothing left behind. 🎀

🌟 cute lil sign-off: this page is from the General Commands Manual, and it was dated 2002 October 16th. so she's an old queen and we respect her for it. 👑💀✨