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   1 .\" -*-nroff-*-
   2 .TH cdb-list 1 "9 October 2003" "Straylight/Edgeware"
   3 .SH SYNOPSIS
   4 .B cdb-list
   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 a list of items 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.  Each other line
  16 .I line
  17 causes an entry to be inserted into the BDB, whose key is
  18 .I line
  19 with leading and trailing spaces stripped, and whose value is empty.
  20 .PP
  21 The CDB file is written to
  22 .IB cdb .new
  23 and renamed to
  24 .I cdb
  25 when it's finished.
  26 .SH BUGS
  27 None known.
  28 .SH AUTHOR
  29 Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk>