dbfdump - dump xBase DBF files as text

dbfdump [-h] [-m] [-r] file

Dumps the contents of file to standard output. The first line contains the field names appearing in file, and each of the following lines contains the field values of a record. Field names and values are padded by spaces to their field widths. Empty fields are printed as the string "(NULL)".

-h

Prints the column field definitions before other output. Each field definition consists of a line of the form

Field: index, Type=type, Title=`name', Width=width, Decimals=precision

where index is the zero offset column number of the field; the type indicates the datatype of the field value and is either "Integer", "Real" or "String"; name is the field's name; width is the number of bytes reserved for the field's value; and precision is the number of decimal places of precision for "Real" type fields, and is zero for "Integer" and "String" type fields.

-m

Prints each record in multiline format separated by empty lines. The first line of a record gives the number of the record in the form

Records: record_index

where record_index is the zero offset number of the record in the file, and then each field of the record appears on its own line in the format

name: value

-r

Prints the exact bytes occurring in file for field values and suppresses printing "(NULL)" for empty values.

0

Successful program execution.

1

Missing file argument.

2

Failed to open file.

3

There are no fields in file.

The following diagnostics may be issued on stdout:

DBFOpen(file,"r"")failed."

There are no fields in this table!

Frank Warmerdam (warmerdam@pobox.com) is the maintainer of the shapelib shapefile library. Joonas Pihlaja (jpihlaja@cc.helsinki.fi) wrote this man page.

Unless the -r option is given, values in numeric fields that overflow the int or double types of the C language are printed as plus or minus a huge number. For integer fields the huge value is HUGE_VALL from <stdlib.h> and for real fields it is HUGE_VALF.

dbf_dump(1), dbfcreate(1), dbfadd(1), shpadd(1), shpcreate(1), shpdump(1), shprewind(1)