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45c67ac4 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
8Constructs a CDB file (see
9.BR cdbmake (1),
10.BR cdbget (1))
11from mappings in the
12.I input
13files (or stdin if there are none).
14.PP
15No comments or blank lines are allowed. Lines must have the form
16.RI ` key \c
17.BR : \c
18.IR value '.
19Whitespace is preserved. This is intended to be used with autogenerated
20files rather than human-written ones.
21.PP
22The CDB file is written to
23.IB cdb .new
24and renamed to
25.I cdb
26when it's finished.
27.SH BUGS
28None known.
29.SH AUTHOR
71d8432e 30Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk>