MAKEDB(1)

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💖 MAKEDB(1) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're talking about makedb — that's the perl user-contributed manpage energy, and she is lowkey a legend for anyone doing name service stuff. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

makedb — create a simple DB database, from textual input. that's it, that's the whole vibe 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

makedb [ options ] INPUT-FILE OUTPUT-FILE

makedb [ options ] -o OUTPUT-FILE INPUT-FILE

makedb [ options ] -u INPUT-FILE

three whole moods, bestie. pick your fighter. 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea ☕: this program is mainly used to generate database files for the libnss_db.so module, which belongs to the Name Service Switch. that's the main character job. that's her purpose. periodt. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -f, --fold-case — converts the key to lower case. lowercase era fr fr. 🔡
  • -o, --output OUTPUT-FILE — writes the output to the file OUTPUT-FILE. yes queen, choose your own destination. 💖
  • -q, --quiet — do not print messages while building the database. silent but deadly, we stan a low-profile icon. 🤫
  • -u, --undo — prints the content of a database file, one entry per line. the un-doing. the reverse card. 🔄
  • -?, --help — gives you the help message. she's got your back. 🫶
  • --usage — gives a short usage message. just a lil snack-sized version. 🍓
  • -V, --version — prints the program version. slay, now you know what you're running. ⭐

💜 AUTHOR 💜

makedb was written by Ulrich Drepper for the GNU C Library. king behavior honestly. 👑

This manpage was written by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system. we owe them both, no cap. 🙏

okay so that's the whole page bestie, go build ur databases and be iconic about it. 🌈🦋💖

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