Linux cli command mdb-export

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NAME 🖥️ mdb-export 🖥️

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

SYNOPSIS

mdb-export [--no-header] [--delimiter delim] [--row-delimiter delim] [[--no-quote] | [--quote char [--escape char]]] [--escape-invisible] [--date-format fmt] [--datetime-format fmt] [--bin strip|raw|octal|hex] [--boolean-words] database table
mdb-export --insert backend [--namespace prefix] [--batch-size int] database table
mdb-export -h|--help
mdb-export --version

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.**

Used with –insert, it outputs SQL specific to backend dialect, including some constraints like NOT NULL and foreign keys.

OPTIONS

-H, –no-header
Suppress header row.

-d, –delimiter delim
Specify an alternative column delimiter. Default is , (comma).

-R, –row-delimiter delim
Specify a row delimiter. Default is (ASCII value 10).

-Q, –no-quote
Don’t wrap text-like fields (text, memo, date) in quotes. If not specified text fiels will be surrounded by " (double quote) characters.

-q, –quote char
Use char to wrap text-like fields. Default is " (double quote).

-X, –escape char
Use char to escape quoted characters within a field. Default is doubling.

-e, –escape-invisible
Use C-style escaping for return ( ), tab ( ), line-feed ( ), and back-slash () characters. Default is to leave as they are.

-I, –insert 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.

-N, –namespace prefix
Prefix identifiers with prefix**.**

-S, –batch-size int
Size of insert batches on supported platforms.

-D, –date-format fmt
Set the date format (see strftime(3) for details.

-T, –datetime-format fmt
Set the date/time format (see strftime(3) for details.

-0, –null char
Use char to represent a NULL value. -b, –bin strip|raw|octal|hex Binary export mode: strip binaries, export as-is, output \ooo style octal data or output \xx style hexadecimal data.

-B, –boolean-words
Use TRUE/FALSE in Boolean fields (default is 0/1).

–version
Print the mdbtools version and exit.

NOTES

Most of the formatting options actually also works with –insert.

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
Colon-separated list of options:

  • debug_like

  • debug_write

  • debug_usage

  • debug_ole

  • debug_row

  • debug_props

  • debug_all is a shortcut for all debug_* options

  • no_memo (deprecated; has no effect)

  • use_index (experimental; requires libmswstr)

SEE ALSO

mdb-array(1) mdb-count(1) mdb-header(1) mdb-hexdump(1) mdb-import(1) mdb-json(1) mdb-parsecsv(1) mdb-prop(1) mdb-queries(1) mdb-schema(1) mdb-sql(1) mdb-tables(1) mdb-ver(1)

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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