Dbfilevalidate (1) Linux Manual Page

dbfilevalidate – insure the source input is a well-formed Fsdb file

Synopsis

 dbfilevalidate [-vc]

Description

Validates the input file to make sure it is a well-formed fsdb file. If the file is well-formed, it outputs the whole file and exits with a good exit code. For invalid files, it exits with an error exit code and embedded error messages in the stream as comments with “***” in them.

Currently this program checks for rows with missing or extra columns.

Options

-v or –errors-only: Output only broken lines, not the whole thing.
-c or –correct: Correct errors, if possible. Pad out rows with the empty value; truncate rows with extra values. If errors can be corrected the program exits with a good return code.
"-e E" or "–empty E": give value E as the value for empty (null) records

This module also supports the standard fsdb options:

-d: Enable debugging output.
-i or –input InputSource: Read from InputSource, typically a file name, or "-" for standard input, or (if in Perl) a IO::Handle, Fsdb::IO or Fsdb::BoundedQueue objects.
-o or –output OutputDestination: Write to OutputDestination, typically a file name, or "-" for standard output, or (if in Perl) a IO::Handle, Fsdb::IO or Fsdb::BoundedQueue objects.
–autorun or –noautorun: By default, programs process automatically, but Fsdb::Filter objects in Perl do not run until you invoke the run() method. The "–(no)autorun" option controls that behavior within Perl.
–help: Show help.
–man: Show full manual.

Sample Usage

Input:

 #fsdb sid cid

 1 10

 2

 1 12

 2 12

Command:

 cat TEST/dbfilevalidate_ex.in | dbvalidate

Output:

 #fsdb sid cid

 1 10

 2

 # *** line above is missing field cid.

 1 12

 2 12

 # | dbfilevalidate

AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT

This program is distributed under terms of the GNU general public license, version 2. See the file COPYING with the distribution for details.

dbfilevalidate (1) Linux Manual Page