mdb-tables (1) Linux Manual Page
mdb-tables – Get listing of tables in an MDB database
Synopsis
mdb-tables [-S] [-1 | -d delimiter] database
Description
mdb-tables is a utility program distributed with MDB Tools. It produces a list of tables contained within an MDB database in a format suitable for use in shell scripts.
Options
- -S
- Show system tables. System tables are generally those beginning with ‘MSys’
- -1
- specifies that the tables should be listed 1 per line.
- -d delimiter
- specifies an alternative delimiter. If no delimiter is specified, table names will be delimited by a tab character, or by newline if the -1 option was specified.
Notes
Environment
- MDB_JET3_CHARSET
- Defines the charset of the input JET3 (access 97) file. Default is CP1252. See iconv(1).
- MDBICONV
- Defines the output charset. Default is UTF-8. mdbtools must have been compiled with iconv.
- MDBOPTS
- semi-column separated list of options:
- •
- use_index
- •
- no_memo
- •
- debug_like
- •
- debug_write
- •
- debug_usage
- •
- debug_ole
- •
- debug_row
- •
- debug_props
- •
- debug_all is a shortcut for all debug_* options
- •
History
mdb-tables first appeared in MDB Tools 0.3.See Also
gmdb2(1) mdb-export(1) mdb-hexdump(1) mdb-prop(1) mdb-sql(1) mdb-ver(1) mdb-array(1) mdb-header(1) mdb-parsecsv(1) mdb-schema(1)Authors
The mdb-tables utility was written by Brian Bruns.Bugs
- Access allows for tables to have spaces embeded in the table name.
- You must specify a delimiter (-d) if you intend on piping the output of mdb-tables to a program such as awk or cut.