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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
8Constructs a CDB file (see
9.BR cdbmake (1),
10.BR cdbget (1))
11from the assignments in the
12.I input
13files (or stdin if there are none).
14.PP
15Comments and blank lines in the inputs are ignored; other lines must
16have the form
17.RI ` key
18.B =
19.IR value '.
20Leading and trailing spaces in each are stripped. This is a convenient
21tool for building simple CBD files, rather than comprehensive one.
22.PP
23The CDB file is written to
24.IB cdb .new
25and renamed to
26.I cdb
27when it's finished.
28.SH BUGS
29None known.
30.SH AUTHOR
31Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk>