mdb-tables(1)

mdb-tables1

Get listing of tables in an mdb database

Usage

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

Overview

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

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debug_write

•

debug_usage

•

debug_ole

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debug_row

•

debug_props

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debug_all is a shortcut for all debug_* options

•

no_memo (deprecated; has no effect)

•

use_index (experimental; requires libmswstr)

Releases

11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 9 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0–5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10
  8. 11
  9. 12
  10. 13

--delimiter since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --showtype since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --single-column since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --system since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --type since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --version since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -T since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -t since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

History

mdb-tables first appeared in MDB Tools 0.3.

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.

From mdbtools 1.0.1-0.1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.