derb (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

derb – disassemble a resource bundle

SYNOPSIS

derb [ -h, -?, –help ] [ -V, –version ] [ -v, –verbose ] [ -e, –encoding encoding ] [ –bom ] [ -t, –truncate [ size ] ] [ -s, –sourcedir source ] [ -d, –destdir destination ] [ -i, –icudatadir directory ] [ -c, –to-stdout ] bundle …

DESCRIPTION

derb reads the compiled resource bundle files passed on the command line and write them back in text form. The resulting text files have a .txt extension while compiled resource bundle source files typically have a .res extension.

It is customary to name the resource bundles by their locale name, i.e. to use a local identifier for the bundle filename, e.g. ja_JP.res for Japanese (Japan) data, or root.res for the root bundle. This is especially important for derb since the locale name is not accessible directly from the compiled resource bundle, and to know which locale to ask for when opening the bundle. derb will produce a file whose base name is the base name of the compiled resource file itself. If the –to-stdout, -c option is used, however, the text will be written on the standard output.

OPTIONS

-h, -?, –help

Print help about usage and exit.

-V, –version

Print the version of derb and exit.

-v, –verbose

Display extra informative messages during execution.

-A, –suppressAliases

Don’t follow aliases when producing output.

-e, –encoding encoding

Set the encoding used to write output files to encoding. The default encoding is the invariant (subset of ASCII or EBCDIC) codepage for the system (see section INVARIANT CHARACTERS). The choice of the encoding does not affect the data, just their representation. Characters that cannot be represented in the encoding will be represented using