NAME

       vltsv - mutual converter between TSV and Villa database

SYNOPSIS

       vltsv import [-bin] name
       vltsv export [-bin] name

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the vltsv commands.

       The  command  vltsv features mutual conversion between a database of Villa and a TSV text.
       This command is useful when data exchange with another version of QDBM or another DBM,  or
       when  data exchange between systems which have different byte orders. This command is used
       in the above format. name specifies a database name.

       The subcommand export reads TSV data from  the  standard  input.   The  subcommand  import
       writes TSV data to the standard output.

OPTIONS

       A   summary   of  options  is  included  below.   For  a  complete  description,  see  the
       file:///usr/share/doc/qdbm-doc/spex.html#villacli.

       -bin   treat records as Base64 format.

EXAMPLES

       For example, to make a database to search `/etc/password' by  a  user  name,  perform  the
       following command.
            cat /etc/passwd | tr ':' '' | vltsv import casket

       Thus, to retrieve the information of a user `mikio', perform the following command.
            vlmgr get casket mikio

SEE ALSO

       qdbm(3), vlmgr(1), villa(3), vlopen(3).

AUTHOR

       QDBM was written by Mikio Hirabayashi <mikio@fallabs.com>.

       This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>, for the Debian project
       (but may be used by others).