Mdb-export (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

mdb-export – Export data in an MDB database table to CSV format.

SYNOPSIS


mdb - export[-H][-d delimiter][-R row_delim][[-Q] | [-q quote[-X escape]]][-I backend][-D format][-N namespace][-b strip | raw | octal] database table

DESCRIPTION

mdb-export is a utility program distributed with MDB Tools.

It produces a CSV (comma separated value) output for the given table. Such output is suitable for importation into databases or spreadsheets.

OPTIONS

-H: Supress header row
-Q: Don’t wrap text-like fields (text, memo, date) in quotes. If not specified text fiels will be surrounded by " (double quote) characters.
-d: Specify an alternative column delimiter If no delimiter is specified, table names will be delimited by a , (comma) character.
-R: Specify a row delimiter
-I backend: INSERT statements (instead of CSV). You must specify which SQL backend dialect to use. Allowed values are: access, sybase, oracle, postgres, mysql and sqlite.
-D: Set the date format (see strftime(3) for details)
-q: Use to wrap text-like fields. Default is ".
-X: Use to escape quoted characters within a field. Default is doubling.
-N namespace: Prefix identifiers with namespace.
-b strip|raw|octal: Binary export mode: strip binaries, export as-is, or output style octal data.

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 to use for the SQL file. 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-export first appeared in MDB Tools 0.1.

AUTHORS

The mdb-export utility was written by Brian Bruns.

BUGS

Memo fields are allowed to contain a newline characters, the current program does nothing about this.

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