NAME

       dbfdump - dumps the content of a xBase file to the terminal

SYNOPSIS

       dbfdump [-h] [-r] [-m] xbase_file

DESCRIPTION

       Dumps the contents of xbase_file to standard output. The first line contains the field names appearing in
       xbase_file, and each of the following lines contains the field values of a record. Field names and values
       are padded by spaces to their field widths. Empty fields are printed as the string "(NULL)".

OPTIONS

       -h     output header info (field descriptions).

              Prints  the column field definitions before other output. Each field definition consists of a line
              of the form

              Field: index, Type=type, Title=`name', Width=width, Decimals=precision

              where index is the zero offset column number of the field; the type indicates the datatype of  the
              field  value  and  is either "Integer", "Real" or "String"; name is the field's name; width is the
              number of bytes reserved for the field's value; and precision is the number of decimal  places  of
              precision for "Real" type fields, and is zero for "Integer" and "String" type fields.

       -r     output raw field info, numeric values not reformatted.

              Prints  the  exact bytes occurring in xbase_file for field values and suppresses printing "(NULL)"
              for empty values.

       -m     output one line per field.

              Prints each record in multiline format separated by empty lines. The first line of a record  gives
              the number of the record in the form

              Records: record_index

              where record_index is the zero offset number of the record in the file, and then each field of the
              record appears on its own line in the format

              name: value

       xbase_file
              the name of an existing xBase file.

EXAMPLE

       dbfdump -h testbase.dbf

       assuming  that testbase.dbf has 1 record (inserted by other example using dbfadd), this command line will
       produce the following output:

           Field 0: Type=String, Title='NAME', Width=20, Decimals=0
           Field 1: Type=Double, Title='AREA', Width=9, Decimals=3
           Field 2: Type=Double, Title='VALUE', Width=9, Decimals=2
           NAME AREA VALUE REGION1 25.656 150.22

EXIT STATUS

       0      Successful program execution.

       1      Missing xbase_file argument.

       2      Failed to open xbase_file.

       3      There are no fields in xbase_file.

DIAGNOSTICS

       The following diagnostics may be issued on stdout:

       DBFOpen(xbase_file,"r") failed.

       There are no fields in this table!

AUTHOR

       dbfdump is part of shapelib, maintained by Frank Warmerdam. This  guide  was  created  by  Eduardo  Patoo
       Kanegae  and converted to manpage by Johan Van de Wauw. It was further enhanced with the man page written
       by Joonas Pihlaja (jpihlaja@cc.helsinki.fi).

BUGS

       Unless the -r option is given, values in numeric fields that overflow the int or double types  of  the  C
       language are printed as plus or minus a huge number. For integer fields the huge value is HUGE_VALL from

SEE ALSO

       dbfadd(1),   dbfcat(1),  dbfcreate(1),  dbfinfo(1),  shpadd(1),  shpcat(1),  shpcentrd(1),  shpcreate(1),
       shpdump(1), shpdxf(1), shpfix(1), shpinfo(1), shpproj(1), shprewind(1), shptest(1)

                                                  December 2023                                       DBFDUMP(1)