MAKEBDB(1)

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💖 MAKEBDB(1) — the makebdb manual, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, you found the page for makebdb, a lil General Commands Manual legend. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get you fluent.

✨ NAME ✨

makebdb — Make a BerkeleyDB database from stdin

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

makebdb [options] bdbname

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so basically, makebdb lets you build a whole BerkeleyDB database out of stuff you pipe in from stdin. it's giving "glow up your text into a real database" energy and honestly? iconic.

bdbname is the name of the BerkeleyDB database you're creating. usually this file's name is gonna end in .db — that's just the vibe. 🎀

⚠️ heads up bestie: if that file already exists, it will be overwritten. like, gone gone. no undo, no recycle bin, no "wait I needed that". 💀

the format of the input? key, value pairs, separated by a colon (:). that's it. that's the whole recipe.

Example:

this is a key:this is a value

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help — prints usage information. your girl makebdb explaining herself. 🫶
  • -u, --undo — prints the content of the database file, one entry a line. not an actual undo btw, it's a print — read it before you get your hopes up 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the full documentation for BerkeleyDB is living over on the Sleepycat Software web site: http://www.sleepycat.com — go look, it's lowkey a whole library of lore. ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Original GDBM code by Horms <horms@verge.net.au>. Modified for BerkeleyDB by Chris Stratford <chriss@pipex.net>. two absolute main characters, we stan. 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this little gem is from the General Commands Manual, and the version we're looking at is dated 30th May 2002 — yeah, it's vintage, but it ate and left no crumbs. periodt. 💅✨

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