XB_DELETALL(1)

📦 version 4.2.6, in fedora 44

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, meet xb_deletall — she's a little program from the General Commands Manual (section 1, iykyk) and her whole entire job is flagging all the records in a DBF data file for deletion. yes. all of them. every single one. no cap. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

xb_deletall -t myfile.DBF

xb_deletall -h

xb_deletall -v

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so like, xb_deletall flags all records for deletion in a DBF table. that's the vibe. that's the whole thing. 🦋

and listen — flagging is not the same as actually deleting, okay? the records are just marked. if you wanna physically remove all the records that got flagged for deletion, that's a whole different girlie, and her name is xb_pack. go see her. 💅

🌈 OVERVIEW 🌈

the Xbase64 library is giving very much "here's a bunch of utility programs AND a set of C++ classes" for application programming — specifically for reading, writing and updating DBF database files, NDX and MDX index files and DBT memo files. like she does it all, she's the main character. 👑

Version 4.x.x has been tested for compatability with dBASE III (TM), dBASE IV (TM) and dBASE 5 (TM) version data files and indices:

  • *.DBF — data
  • *.NDX — single tag index
  • *.MDX — multi tag index
  • *.DBT — memo

and in RDBMS parlance? each *.DBF file would be a table. periodt. ⭐

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, -?, --help — display help information. your girl is here to help, always. 🎀
  • -v, --version — display version information. she'll tell you exactly what version she is, and she's not shy about it. ✨
  • -t myfile.DBF — the DBF file to falg all records for deletion. (yes bestie, "falg" — that's the original's typo, not mine, and I'm not touching it, it's iconic in its own way 🙈. it means flag. it's flagging all the records. 💀)

🦋 FILES 🦋

  • *.DBF

🌸 AUTHORS 🌸

Gary Kunkel <xdb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> — the icon, the legend, the moment. 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

💜 REPORTING BUGS 💜

found a bug? spill the tea to <xdb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>. she wants to know, fr fr. 🐛

💖 that's the whole page bestie — GNU, dated 2023-11-18, XB_DELETALL(1), and honestly? she ate. go flag some records. slay. 💅✨🌸
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