GNU Gdbm Reference Manual

GNU dbm (or GDBM, for short) is a library of database functions that use extensible hashing and work similar to the standard UNIX dbm. These routines are provided to a programmer needing to create and manipulate a hashed database.

The basic use of GDBM is to store key/data pairs in a data file. Each key must be unique and each key is paired with only one data item.

The Gdbm Reference Manual provides beginners with a simple introduction to the basics, and experts will find advanced details they need.

In this you will see the following things below.

- 1 Copying Conditions

- 2 Introduction to GNU dbm

- 3 List of functions

- 4 Opening the database

- 5 Closing the database

- 6 Number of Records

- 7 Inserting and replacing records in the database

- 8 Searching for records in the database

- 9 Removing records from the database

- 10 Sequential access to records

- 11 Database reorganization

- 12 Database Synchronization

- 13 Export and Import

- 14 Error handling

- 15 Recovery

- 16 Setting options

- 17 File Locking

- 18 Useful global variables

- 19 Error codes

- 20 Compatibility with standard dbm and ndbm

- 21 Examine and modify a GDBM database

- 22 The gdbm_dump utility

- 23 The gdbm_load utility

- 24 Export a database into a portable format

- 25 Exit codes

- 26 Problems and bugs

- 27 Additional resources

- Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License

- Index

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