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17 Export a database into a portable format.
The gdbmexport
utility converts the database into a portable
flat format. Files in this format can be used to populate
databases using the gdbm_import
function (see section gdbm_import) or the i
command of testgdbm
utility
(see testgdbm import). In many cases files in this format are suitable for
sending over the network to populate the database on another machine.
The only exception to this are databases whose records contain
non-ASCII data (e.g. C structures, integers
etc.). For such databases you will be better off by writing a
specialized utility to convert them to an architecture-independent
format.
If gdbmexport
is linked with ‘libgdbm’
version 1.8.3, it can be used to convert databases from old to new
format.
The utility takes two mandatory arguments: the name of the database file to convert and the output file name, e.g.:
$ gdbmexport junk.gdbm junk.flat
In addition two options are understood:
- ‘-h’
Display short usage summary and exit.
- ‘-v’
Display program version and licensing information, and exit.
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