mdb-tables - Man Page

Get listing of tables in an MDB database

Synopsis

mdb-tables [-S] [-1 | -d delim] [-t form|table|macro|systable|report|query|linkedtable|module|relationship|dbprop|any|all] [-T] database
mdb-tables -h|--help
mdb-tables --version

Description

mdb-tables is a utility program distributed with MDB Tools.

It produces a list of tables contained within an MDB database in a format suitable for use in shell scripts.

Options

-S,  --system

Show system tables. System tables are generally those beginning with 'MSys'.

-1,  --single-column

Specifies that the tables should be listed 1 per line. This is equivalent to --delim 0

-d,  --delimiter delim

Specifies an alternative delimiter. If no delimiter is specified, table names will be delimited by a tab character, or by newline if the -1 option was specified.

-t,  --type type

Filters entries to show alternate types. Autorized values are form, table, macro, systable, report, query, linkedtable, module, relationship, dbprop, any, and all. Default value is table.

-T,  --showtype

Display the entry type indentifier before each entry.

--version

Print the mdbtools version and exit.

Notes

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. 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)

History

mdb-tables first appeared in MDB Tools 0.3.

See Also

mdb-array(1) mdb-count(1) mdb-export(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-ver(1)

Authors

The mdb-tables utility was written by Brian Bruns.

Bugs

Access allows for tables to have spaces embedded in the table name.

You must specify a delimiter (-d) if you intend on piping the output of mdb-tables to a program such as awk or cut.

Referenced By

mdb-array(1), mdb-count(1), mdb-export(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-ver(1).

18 July 2024 MDBTools 1.0.0 Executable programs or shell commands