NAME

       dptsv - mutual converter between TSV and QDBM Depot database

SYNOPSIS

       dptsv import [-bnum num] [-bin] name
       dptsv export [-bin] name

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the dptsv commands.

       The  command dptsv features mutual conversion between a database of Depot 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.  If a key overlaps, the latter is  adopted.
       -bnum  specifies the number of the elements of the bucket array. 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#depotcli.

       -bnum num
              specify the number of the elements of the bucket array.

       -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 ':' '' | dptsv import casket

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

SEE ALSO

       qdbm(3), dpmgr(1), dpopen(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).