NAME

       cookietool - program to operate cookie (fortune) database

SYNOPSIS

       cookietool [options] <database>

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the cookietool command.

       This  manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not
       have a manual page. Instead, it has some plaintext documentation, see below.

       cookietool is a program that should be used to sort, clear  and  maintain  cookie  database  in  standard
       fortune(6)  format,  i.e.  list  of  cookies  delimited with line containing a single percent ('%') char.
       cookietool can now understand another formats and convert cookie database between them.

OPTIONS

       A summary  of  options  is  included  below.  For  a  complete  description,  see  the  documentation  in
       /usr/share/doc/cookietool directory

       [nothing]
              Shows summary of options.

       -c     case sensitive comparisons.

       -d[0-3]
              how fussy about word delimiters? (default: 2)

       -b     delete cookies that are 'abbreviations' of another, too.

       -p     passive, don't delete anything.

       -s[l|w|<sep>|s]
              sort  cookies; looking after last line only; looking after last word only; starting after the last
              <sep>, e.g. '-s--'; by size.

       -a     treat 'abbreviations' as doubles (i.e. delete them from the database, too).

       -f[0-3]
              input file format - -f3: cookies are separated by '%%' lines; -f2: cookies are  separated  by  '%'
              lines (DEFAULT); -f1: each line is a cookie; -f0: each word is a cookie.

       -F[0-3]
              force output in a different file format, see -f.

       -o     overwrite directly without temporary file. CAUTION NEEDED.

SEE ALSO

       cdbdiff(6), cdbsplit(6)

BUGS

       None known.

AUTHOR

       Upstream  author  and  Aminet  cookietool.lha  package  with AmigaOS binaries uploader is Wilhelm Noeker,
       <wnoeker@t-online.de>. Unix manpages (including this one) and makefile are  maintained  by  Miros/law  L.
       Baran <baran@debian.org>. This manual page uses many excerpts from the original README file.

                                                  May 19, 2001                                     COOKIETOOL(6)