NAME
dbfdump - dump xBase DBF files as text
SYNOPSIS
dbfdump [-h] [-m] [-r] file
DESCRIPTION
Dumps the contents of file to standard output. The first line contains
the field names appearing in file, and each of the following lines
contains the field values of a record. Field names and values are
padded by spaces to their field widths. Empty fields are printed as
the string "(NULL)".
OPTIONS
-h Prints the column field definitions before other output. Each
field definition consists of a line of the form
Field: index, Type=type, Title=‘name’, Width=width,
Decimals=precision
where index is the zero offset column number of the field; the
type indicates the datatype of the field value and is either
"Integer", "Real" or "String"; name is the field’s name; width
is the number of bytes reserved for the field’s value; and
precision is the number of decimal places of precision for
"Real" type fields, and is zero for "Integer" and "String" type
fields.
-m Prints each record in multiline format separated by empty lines.
The first line of a record gives the number of the record in the
form
Records: record_index
where record_index is the zero offset number of the record in
the file, and then each field of the record appears on its own
line in the format
name: value
-r Prints the exact bytes occurring in file for field values and
suppresses printing "(NULL)" for empty values.
EXIT STATUS
0 Successful program execution.
1 Missing file argument.
2 Failed to open file.
3 There are no fields in file.
DIAGNOSTICS
The following diagnostics may be issued on stdout:
DBFOpen(file,"r") failed.
There are no fields in this table!
AUTHORS
Frank Warmerdam (warmerdam@pobox.com) is the maintainer of the shapelib
shapefile library. Joonas Pihlaja (jpihlaja@cc.helsinki.fi) wrote this
man page.
BUGS
Unless the -r option is given, values in numeric fields that overflow
the int or double types of the C language are printed as plus or minus
a huge number. For integer fields the huge value is HUGE_VALL from
<stdlib.h> and for real fields it is HUGE_VALF.
SEE ALSO
dbf_dump(1), dbfcreate(1), dbfadd(1), shpadd(1), shpcreate(1),
shpdump(1), shprewind(1)