DBXFLAT(1e)

📦 version 6.6.0, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 DBXFLAT(1e) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the EMBOSS Manual for Debian — this is the dbxflat page and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am, except every single flag is still exactly where it should be. no cap. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

dbxflat — index a flat file database using b+tree indices 🌳

like. it builds the little index so your flat files stop being a scavenger hunt. iconic behaviour honestly.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dbxflat -dbname string -dbresource string -idformat list
        -filenames string -directory directory -fields list
        -compressed boolean -release string -date string -exclude string
        -statistics boolean -indexoutdir outdir -outfile outfile

dbxflat -help

so yeah, that's a lot of options, and that's the whole point — she's thorough. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

dbxflat is a command line program from EMBOSS — that's "the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite" in case you were wondering what the acronym was doing. 🧬✨

she lives in the "Utils:Database indexing" command group(s), which is giving very much backstage-crew-making-everything-work energy. main character? no. essential? absolutely. 👑

💜 OPTIONS 💜

🌷 Input section

  • -dbname string — the name of the database, bestie. you bring the name, she brings the index.
  • -dbresource string — the database resource, as a string.
  • -idformat list — the format of the identifiers.
    • Default value: SWISS
  • -filenames string — which files to look at.
    • Default value: *.dat
  • -directory directory — where those files are living.
    • Default value: .

🎀 Required section

like the name says — these are not optional, she's not asking. 🙈

  • -fields list — the fields you want indexed.
    • Default value: id,acc
  • -compressed boolean — is it compressed or not, yes or no.
    • Default value: Y

⭐ Advanced section

for when you're feeling brave. 🫡

  • -release string — the release.
    • Default value: 0.0
  • -date string — the date.
    • Default value: 00/00/00
  • -exclude string — stuff to leave out.
  • -statistics boolean — do you want statistics? that's a you question.
    • Default value: N

💅 Output section

where the goods go. ✨

  • -indexoutdir outdir — the output directory for the index.
    • Default value: .
  • -outfile outfile — the output file.

💀 BUGS 💀

not me having to tell you where the bugs go 😭 — bugs can be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking system (http://bugs.debian.org/emboss), or you can go straight to the EMBOSS developers (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93650&atid=605031).

fr fr, they wanna hear from you.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

dbxflat is fully documented via the tfm(1) system. iykyk. 📖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>

  • Wrote the script used to autogenerate this manual page.

shoutout to the script, honestly. ate. 🫶

This manual page was autogenerated from an Ajax Control Definition of the EMBOSS package. It can be redistributed under the same terms as EMBOSS itself.

lowkey the whole page is autogenerated and that's fine, she's still serving. 🎀

and that's a wrap, bestie — this came to you from EMBOSS 6.4.0, dated 05/11/2012, and it's the DBXFLAT(1e) page. periodt. 💅✨🦋

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