Reading Berkely DB

[Ray Van Dolson]

Yeah, I'm guessing your Berkeley DB is in hash format (there's also rn and
bt it looks like).  If you want, the following Python script should print
out the contents of a hash DB...

http://www.bludgeon.org/~rayvd/printdb.py

Just give the database filename location as the only argument.

> On Oct 14,  9:54am, Sundar wrote:
>
>> Is there any  program that could dump what's in the Berkeley DB to
>> text  file or display it in human readable form?
>
> As I recall, Berkeley DB provides facilities to look up some arbitrarily
> formatted data given an arbitrarily formatted key.  The structure of the
> key and its associated data are determined by the program making use of
> the Berkeley DB library.
>
> So... a program that does what you want would have to know the format of
> the keys and data.  That said, there are some programs that have been
> written for certain applications of Berkeley DB that will do what you
> want, but only for those applications.  E.g, the ``makemap'' program is
> used to create sendmail databases in Berkeley DB format.  The -u option
> may be used to print the contents of these databases in human readable
> form.
>
> Kevin
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