dbfilevalidate - insure the source input is a well-formed Fsdb file

NOTE: this page was directly converted from the perl FSDB manual pages from FSDB version 3.1

SYNOPSIS

dbfilevalidate [-vc]

DESCRIPTION

Validates the input file to make sure it is a well-formed fsdb file. If the file is well-formed, it outputs the whole file and exits with a good exit code. For invalid files, it exits with an error exit code and embedded error messages in the stream as comments with *** in them.

Currently this program checks for rows with missing or extra columns.

OPTIONS

-v or –errors-only

Output only broken lines, not the whole thing.

-c or –correct

Correct errors, if possible. Pad out rows with the empty value; truncate rows with extra values. If errors can be corrected the program exits with a good return code.

“-e E” or “–empty E”

give value E as the value for empty (null) records

This module also supports the standard fsdb options:

-d

Enable debugging output.

-i or –input InputSource

Read from InputSource, typically a file name, or - for standard input, or (if in Perl) a IO::Handle, Fsdb::IO or Fsdb::BoundedQueue objects.

-o or –output OutputDestination

Write to OutputDestination, typically a file name, or - for standard output, or (if in Perl) a IO::Handle, Fsdb::IO or Fsdb::BoundedQueue objects.

–autorun or –noautorun

By default, programs process automatically, but Fsdb::Filter objects in Perl do not run until you invoke the run() method. The --(no)autorun option controls that behavior within Perl.

--help

Show help.

--man

Show full manual.

SAMPLE USAGE

Input:

#fsdb sid cid 1 10 2 1 12 2 12

Command:

cat TEST/dbfilevalidate_ex.in | dbvalidate

Output:

#fsdb sid cid 1 10 2 # *** line above is missing field cid. 1 12 2 12 # | dbfilevalidate

SEE ALSO

Fsdb.