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NAME

6       makegdbm - Make a GDBM database from stdin
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SYNOPSIS

9       makegdbm [options] gdbmname
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DESCRIPTION

12       makegdbm  allows  a  GBDM  database  to  be formed from input read from
13       stdin. gdbmname is the name of the GBDM database  to  create,  ususally
14       the  name  of this file will end in .db. If the file allready exists is
15       will be overwritten. The format of the input is key, value pairs  sepa‐
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OPTIONS

23       -h, --help:
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27              Print content of database file, one entry a line.
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SEE ALSO

30       gdbm(3)
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AUTHOR

33       Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
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37                              25th December 2000                   MAKEGDBM(1)