DBFCSTOCS(1p)

💖 NAME 💖

dbfcstocs — bestie, it does charset conversion of dbf files ✨

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🎀 FORMAT 🎀

dbfcstocs [options] src_encoding dst_encoding [file.dbf outfile.dbf...]

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dbfcstocs il2 1250 table.dbf table1.dbf

okay and if you just wanna know how to hold it, like, at all:

dbfcstocs --help

that gives you the short usage info. not the whole novel, just the lil snack 🍓

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this script is a wrapper around the cstocs utility, which means: go read its man page first, bestie, fr fr. it's the main character here, this one's just the entourage 💅

what it actually does: it converts charsets in dbf database files. that's the whole vibe.

and then — okay this is the part that's giving genius — there's the --field-names-charset option, which lets you say specifically which charset the field names should get converted to. so you can have the file itself go from Windows-1250 to IOS-8859-2 while the field names get yeeted over to US-ASCII, no cap:

dbfcstocs --field-names-charset-ascii 1250 il2 table.dbf table1.dbf

two different conversions, one command, she's versatile 😌✨

now. after you've given it the encoding specs, you pass in couples of input dbf file and output destination file names. like, in pairs. input, output, input, output. that's the pattern, don't fight it 🫶

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• cstocs(1).

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Jan Pazdziora

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lowkey reminder bestie: this page is documented for perl v5.30.0, dated 2019-10-05. that's the era, that's the vibe, and that's genuinely the whole page. mwah 💋 go convert something 🦋💖