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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 mappings in the
.I input
files (or stdin if there are none).
.PP
No comments or blank lines are allowed.  Lines must have the form
.RI ` key \c
.BR : \c
.IR value '.
Whitespace is preserved.  This is intended to be used with autogenerated
files rather than human-written ones.
.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>