NAME

       makegdbm - Make a GDBM database from stdin

SYNOPSIS

       makegdbm [options] gdbmname

DESCRIPTION

       makegdbm  allows  a GBDM database to be formed from input read from stdin. gdbmname is the
       name of the GBDM database to create, ususally the name of this file will end  in  .db.  If
       the  file  allready  exists  is will be overwritten. The format of the input is key, value
       pairs separated by a colon (:).

       Example:

       this is a key:this is a value

OPTIONS

       -h, --help:
              Print usage information.

       -u, --undo:
              Print content of database file, one entry a line.

SEE ALSO

       gdbm(3)

AUTHOR

       Horms <horms@verge.net.au>

                                        25th December 2000                            MAKEGDBM(1)