VLTSV(1)                    Quick Database Manager                    VLTSV(1)



NAME
       vltsv - mutual converter between TSV and Villa database

SYNOPSIS
       vltsv import [-bin] name
       vltsv export [-bin] name

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the vltsv commands.

       The command vltsv features mutual conversion between a database of
       Villa 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.  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#villacli.

       -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 ':' '' | vltsv import casket

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

SEE ALSO
       qdbm(3), vlmgr(1), villa(3), vlopen(3).

AUTHOR
       QDBM was written by Mikio Hirabayashi <mikio@users.sourceforge.net>.

       This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>, for
       the Debian project (but may be used by others).



Man Page                          2005-05-23                          VLTSV(1)
