mdb-queries(1)

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version 1.0.1 · 9 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💅 mdb-queries — the manual page, but make it cute

okay bestie, welcome to mdb-queries(1), from the Executable programs or shell commands shelf of your local man cave. it's a lil MDB Tools utility and it's about to spill all the tea on the queries hiding inside your database. let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

mdb-queries — Get listing of tables in an MDB database

(that's the official line, verbatim, no notes 💖)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mdb-queries [-L] [-1] [-d delim] database query
mdb-queries --version
mdb-queries -h|--help

three moods, three invocation styles. pick your fighter. 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so mdb-queries is a utility program that ships with MDB Tools, which, yes, is the whole vibe.

what does it do, you ask? two things, and it does them iconically:

  • it produces a list of queries in the database 🗂️
  • and it dumps the SQL associated with a specific query 💾

that's it. that's the whole job. no cap.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -L, --list — List queries in the database. (it's the default if no query name is passed, so honestly she's always working, whether you ask or not 👑)
  • -1, --newline — Use newline as the delimiter (used in conjunction with listing). one per line, clean, organized, main character energy ✨
  • -d, --delimiter delim — Specify delimiter to use (defaults to space). you want commas? pipes? go off, choose your own ✨
  • --version — Print the mdbtools version and exit. short, sweet, goodbye 👋

💜 NOTES 💜

(the original page leaves this one blank, so we're leaving it blank too. sometimes the silence is the statement. 💀)

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • MDB_JET3_CHARSET — Defines the charset of the input JET3 (access 97) file. Default is CP1252. See iconv(1). 🧚
  • MDBICONV — Defines the output charset. Default is UTF-8. mdbtools must have been compiled with iconv. (compiled with iconv, bestie, not optional, don't come for me 😭)
  • MDBOPTS — Colon-separated list of options:
    • debug_like
    • debug_write
    • debug_usage
    • debug_ole
    • debug_row
    • debug_props
    • debug_all is a shortcut for all debug_* options
    • no_memo (deprecated; has no effect) — rip, she's retired 🪦
    • use_index (experimental; requires libmswstr) — spicy, unstable, only if you're brave 🔥

📜 HISTORY 📜

mdb-queries first appeared in MDB Tools 0.9. a legend from the start, fr fr. ⭐

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

mdb-array(1) mdb-count(1) mdb-export(1) mdb-header(1) mdb-hexdump(1) mdb-import(1) mdb-json(1) mdb-parsecsv(1) mdb-prop(1) mdb-schema(1) mdb-sql(1) mdb-tables(1) mdb-ver(1)

the whole friend group, all together. 🫶 go say hi.

🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

The mdb-queries utility was written by Leonard Leblanc. thank you king, we owe you everything 💖

and that's the whole page!! this was MDBTools 1.0.1, dated 13 July 2026 — shoutout to the version and the date for holding it down at the bottom of the page. slay, bye 💅✨🌸

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