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1 | .\" -*-nroff-*- |
2 | .TH cdb-assign 1 "9 October 2003" "Straylight/Edgeware" |
3 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
4 | .B cdb-assign |
5 | .I cdb |
6 | .RI [ input ...] |
7 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
8 | Constructs a CDB file (see |
9 | .BR cdbmake (1), |
10 | .BR cdbget (1)) |
11 | from mappings in the |
12 | .I input |
13 | files (or stdin if there are none). |
14 | .PP |
15 | No comments or blank lines are allowed. Lines must have the form |
16 | .RI ` key \c |
17 | .BR : \c |
18 | .IR value '. |
19 | Whitespace is preserved. This is intended to be used with autogenerated |
20 | files rather than human-written ones. |
21 | .PP |
22 | The CDB file is written to |
23 | .IB cdb .new |
24 | and renamed to |
25 | .I cdb |
26 | when it's finished. |
27 | .SH BUGS |
28 | None known. |
29 | .SH AUTHOR |
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30 | Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk> |