Examining Berkeley DB files from the CLI
Check out the db-utils package. If you use apt, you can install it with the following: apt-get install db-util
(or apt-get install db4.8-util
or whatever version you have or prefer.)
Additional links:
- http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=db-utils
- https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=default§ion=all&arch=any&keywords=db-util&searchon=names
- Man page of db4.4_dump
Use the db_dump
program. It is contained in the package core/db
(Arch), db-util
(Debian, Ubuntu), sys-libs/db
(Gentoo, note that here the binary is called db4.8_dump
or whatever version you are using).
On some systems the man pages are not installed, in that case the documentation can be found here. By default, db_dump
outputs some hex numbers, which is not really useful if you are trying to analyse the content of a database. Use the -p
argument to change this.
Show everything that’s in the file database.db
:
db_dump -p database.db
List the databases in the file database.db
:
db_dump -l database.db
Show only the content of the database mydb
in the file database.db
:
db_dump -p -s mydb database.db