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| f342fce2 | 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 the assignments in the | |
| 12 | .I input | |
| 13 | files (or stdin if there are none). | |
| 14 | .PP | |
| 15 | Comments and blank lines in the inputs are ignored; other lines must | |
| 16 | have the form | |
| 17 | .RI ` key | |
| 18 | .B = | |
| 3b47a648 MW |
19 | .IR value '. |
| 20 | Leading and trailing spaces in each are stripped. This is a convenient | |
| 21 | tool for building simple CBD files, rather than comprehensive one. | |
| f342fce2 | 22 | .PP |
| 23 | The CDB file is written to | |
| 24 | .IB cdb .new | |
| 25 | and renamed to | |
| 26 | .I cdb | |
| 27 | when it's finished. | |
| 28 | .SH BUGS | |
| 29 | None known. | |
| 30 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 71d8432e | 31 | Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk> |