tdbtool question

[Herb Lewis]

You will notice that the key you tried to delete said it was 14 bytes
long but htere are only 13 characters. Some keys get added with a
trailing 0 that needs to be part of the key. add a \0 at the end
of the key and see if that works.

Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> I was playing with tdbtool to show and/or delete individual keys from a
> .tdb file.
> 
> What I can't find out is the precise syntax to use.
> 
> 
> Example:
> ========
> 
>   [root at prod printing]# tdbtool SCHP011.tdb
>   tdb> keys
>   key 23 bytes: INFO/linear_queue_array
>   key 14 bytes: STATUS/SCHP011
>   key 16 bytes: NOTIFY_PID_LIST
>   key 20 bytes: MSG_PENDING/SCHP011
>   key 13 bytes: INFO/version
>   key 16 bytes: INFO/total_jobs
>   key 14 bytes: CACHE/SCHP011
>   tdb> help
> 
>   tdbtool:
>     create    dbname     : create a database
>     open      dbname     : open an existing database
>     erase                : erase the database
>     dump                 : dump the database as strings
>     cdump                : dump the database as connection records
>     keys                 : dump the database keys as strings
>     hexkeys              : dump the database keys as hex values
>     info                 : print summary info about the database
>     insert    key  data  : insert a record
>     move      key  file  : move a record to a destination tdb
>     store     key  data  : store a record (replace)
>     show      key        : show a record by key
>     delete    key        : delete a record by key
>     list                 : print the database hash table and freelist
>     free                 : print the database freelist
>     ! command            : execute system command
>     1 | first            : print the first record
>     n | next             : print the next record
>     q | quit             : terminate
>     \n                   : repeat 'next' command
> 
>   tdb> info
>   7 records totalling 292 bytes
>   tdb> show CACHE/SCHP011
>   fetch failed
>   tdb> show 'CACHE/SCHP011'
>   fetch failed
>   tdb> show "CACHE/SCHP011"
>   fetch failed
>   tdb> show CACHE\/SCHP011
>   fetch failed
>   tdb> show CACHE
>   fetch failed
>   tdb> show SCHP011
>   fetch failed
> 
> 
> Does tdbtool even work currently? (this was 3.0.25b)
> 
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