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.TH cdb-assign 1 "9 October 2003" "Straylight/Edgeware"
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B cdb-assign
.I cdb
.RI [ input ...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Constructs a CDB file (see
.BR cdbmake (1),
.BR cdbget (1))
from the assignments in the
.I input
files (or stdin if there are none).
.PP
Comments and blank lines in the inputs are ignored; other lines must
have the form
.RI ` key
.B =
.IR value '.
Leading and trailing spaces in each are stripped.  This is a convenient
tool for building simple CBD files, rather than comprehensive one.
.PP
The CDB file is written to
.IB cdb .new
and renamed to
.I cdb
when it's finished.
.SH BUGS
None known.
.SH AUTHOR
Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk>