man makedb (Commandes) - Create simple DB database from textual input.
NAME
makedb - Create simple DB database from textual input.
SYNOPSIS
makedb [ options ] INPUT-FILE OUTPUT-FILE
makedb [ options ] -o OUTPUT-FILE INPUT-FILE
makedb [ options ] -u INPUT-FILE
DESCRIPTION
This program is mainly used to generate database files for the libnss_db.so module for the Name Service Switch.
OPTIONS
- -f, --fold-case
- Convert key to lower case.
- -o, --output OUTPUT-FILE
- Write output to file OUTPUT-FILE
- -q, --quiet
- Do not print messages while building database.
- -u, --undo
- Print content of database file, one entry a line
- -?, --help
- Give help message.
- --usage
- Give a short usage message.
- -V, --version
- Print program version.
AUTHOR
makedb was written by Ulrich Drepper for the GNU C Library.
This manpage was written by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.