MDB-TOOL(1)

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💖 MDB-TOOL 💖

okay bestie, welcome to mdb-tool, a page from the User Manuals section of the manual. it's a little tool that manipulates the Media DB — yes, that's literally its whole job description and honestly? respect. it's giving "does one thing, does it well" energy. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

mdb-tool — Manipulate Media DB 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mdb-tool [options] command ...

like, you give it some options, you give it a command, and off it goes. that's the whole vibe. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

gmerlin media DB tool. that's it, that's the description, short and iconic. it's the lil' command-line friend for poking at your gmerlin media database. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

these are the top-level options, the ones that come before your command. no cap.

  • -create — make the DB if it isn't there already. it does not exist? boom, now it does. ✨
  • -monitor — sit there and watch the db like a hawk until you hit Ctrl+C. main character surveillance energy, fr fr. 👀
  • -db <path> — this is the DB path. tell it where your database lives. 🗂️

✨ COMMANDS ✨

now the actual commands, the stuff you came here for. 🫶

  • -rescan — rescan directories. go look at everything again, bestie. 🔄
  • -browse-obj <id> — browse an object. give it an id, it shows you the object. 🍓
  • -browse-children <id> — browse children. give it an id, it shows you the children of that thing. 🧚

✨ GENERIC OPTIONS ✨

these ones are the generic options — and the manual says the quiet part out loud: they're available for all gmerlin applications. so once you learn these, you've learned them everywhere. iykyk. 💜

  • -help — print this help message and exit. classic. 🌸
  • -help-man — print this help message as a manual page and exit. meta, honestly. 📖
  • -help-texi — print this help message in texinfo format and exit. fancy format girlies rise. ✨
  • -version — print version info and exit. know your roots. 🌈
  • -v level — set the verbosity level, which ranges from 0..4. crank it up if you want it chatty, turn it down if you want peace. 🔊
  • -syslog name — log to syslog under the specified name. take it to the system logs. 📝
  • -stderr — always log to stderr. no matter what, stderr gets the tea. 💀
💡 tiny reminder bestie: the flags are -create, -monitor and -db for options, -rescan, -browse-obj and -browse-children for commands, and the generic gang is -help, -help-man, -help-texi, -version, -v, -syslog and -stderr. copy them exactly, don't get creative, that's how you end up crying. 😭

okay that's the whole page, you ate it, you understood it, periodt. 💅

this little masterpiece comes from Gmerlin, dated 2025-09-26 — so yeah, she's fresh, she's cute, she's iconic. mwah. 🎀💖✨

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