| 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 |
| 30 | Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk> |