xenial (1) dbfadd.1.gz

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NAME

       dbfadd - add a row to an xBase DBF file

SYNOPSIS

       dbfadd xbase_file field_values...

DESCRIPTION

       Adds  a row to the DBF file named by xbase_file with column values given by the field_values options that
       follow. A NULL value is denoted by an empty argument.

OPTIONS

       xbase_file
              the name of an existing xBase file

       field_values
              list of values to be inserted into the xBase file. You must specify a number of  values  equal  to
              the number of fields the xBase file has. The order of values must also reflect the order of fields
              inside xBase file.

EXAMPLE

       dbfadd testbase.dbf REGION1 25.656 150.22

       Assuming that testbase.dbf has 3 fields (NAME, AREA and VALUE), this  command  line  will  insert  a  new
       record  into  testbase.dbf  with  the  value "REGION1" for NAME, ´25.656´ for AREA and ´150.22´ for VALUE
       field.

EXIT STATUS

       0      Successful program execution.

       1      Missing xbase_file or field_values arguments.

       2      Failed to open xbase_file for reading and appending.

       3      Too few values in field_values...

DIAGNOSTICS

       The following diagnostics may be issued on stdout:

       DBFOpen(xbase_file,"rb+") failed.

       Got count1 fields, but require count2

AUTHOR

       dbfcreate is part of shapelib, maintained by Frank Warmerdam. This guide was  created  by  Eduardo  Patoo
       Kanegae  and converted to manpage by Johan Van de Wauw. It was further enhanced with the man page written
       by Joonas Pihlaja (jpihlaja@cc.helsinki.fi).

BUGS

       Field values that are too large to fit in a field are silently truncated from the  right.  Numeric  field
       values that can´t be parsed by atof(3) get undefined values.

SEE ALSO

       dbfcat(1),  dbfcreate(1),  dbfdump(1),  dbfinfo(1),  shpadd(1),  shpcat(1),  shpcentrd(1),  shpcreate(1),
       shpdump(1), shpdxf(1), shpfix(1), shpinfo(1), shpproj(1), shprewind(1), shptest(1)

                                                   August 2015                                         DBFADD(1)