DBMDELETE(1)

NAME

dbmdelete - delete nodes from a dbm file

SYNOPSIS

dbmdelete [ options ] dbmfile key(s)

DESCRIPTION

dbmdelete deletes one or more nodes, as specified by key(s), from the dbm file dbmfile.

There are a few options:

-h
Hardway: search the database for all keys apparently matching the key specified. (There can be multiple matching keys if, as far as the dbm file is concerned, they differ in ways such as the presence or absence of a trailing `\0' character, or characters following a \0 character, differences which are otherwise invisible, e.g. when considering the keys as C strings.)
-n
Append a null character (`\0') to each key before looking it up in the dbm file.
-ok
Don't complain if key to be deleted isn't found.
-v
Verbose: print a message for each node deleted.
-version
Print program's version number.
-?, -help
Print a brief usage summary / help message.

HISTORY

This documentation corresponds to version 2.3 of the dbmtools package.

See http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/src/#dbmtools for possible updates.

SEE ALSO

dbmstore, dbmfetch, dbmdump, dbmutil
dbm(3), ndbm(3), gdbm(3)

AUTHOR

Steve Summit, scs@eskimo.com