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+.TH cdb-list 1 "9 October 2003" "Straylight/Edgeware"
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B cdb-list
+.I cdb
+.RI [ input ...]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Constructs a CDB file (see
+.BR cdbmake (1),
+.BR cdbget (1))
+from a list of items in the
+.I input
+files (or stdin if there are none).
+.PP
+Comments and blank lines in the inputs are ignored. Each other line
+.I line
+causes an entry to be inserted into the BDB, whose key is
+.I line
+with leading and trailing spaces stripped, and whose value is empty.
+.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@nsict.org>