Catman...:export(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this page is for Catman...:export — that's the manual name, and it lives in the 3pm section, filed under User Contributed Perl Documentation 🫶

and what does it do?? it exports items from a store 💅 that's the whole vibe. one job. and it ate.

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🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

like, the entire structure is basically this, no cap:

catmandu export <STORE> <OPTIONS> to <EXPORTER> <OPTIONS>

see the shape of it? you point at a STORE, you toss in your OPTIONS, you say the word to, and then you name your EXPORTER with its own OPTIONS. it's giving "take my stuff and put it over there" 🎀

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🦋 real ones, actually running it

pulling stuff out of MongoDB and yeeting it into YAML:

catmandu export MongoDB --database-name items --bag book to YAML

look at her go ✨ --database-name items, --bag book, and then to YAML. immaculate.

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💜 ElasticSearch, but make it fancy

catmandu export ElasticSearch --bag book --sru-sortkeys 'title,,1' --cql-query '(title = "test")'

okay this one is highkey the main character — you got --bag book, you got --sru-sortkeys 'title,,1' (yes, those commas are load-bearing, don't touch them 🙈), and you got --cql-query '(title = "test")' to filter down to just the good stuff. obsessed.

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💖 and when you're confused (no shame, we've all been there)

catmandu help store MongoDB
catmandu help exporter YAML

fr fr, if you don't know what a store or an exporter takes, just ask the help command. it's literally right there. iykyk 🌈

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🫶 quick vibe check: every <STORE>, <OPTIONS>, <EXPORTER> in that synopsis is a placeholder — swap in your actual names before you hit enter, bestie. the angle brackets are not a decoration situation 💀

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and that's the whole page!! written up for perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-01-24 — go forth and export, you absolute icon 👑