MDBTools(September 07, 2006)

NAME
mdb-export - Export data in an MDB database table to CSV format.

SYNOPSIS
mdb-export [-H] [-d <delimiter>] [-R <row delim>] [[-Q] || [-q <quote> [-X <escape>]]] [-I] [-D <format>] [-S] <database> <table>

DESCRIPTION
mdb-export is a utility program distributed with MDB Tools.

It produces a CSV (comma separated value) output for the given table. Such output is suitable for importation into databases or spreadsheets.

OPTIONS

-H  Supress header row

-Q  Don't wrap text-like fields (text, memo, date) in quotes. If not specified text fiels will be surrounded by " (double quote) characters.

-d  Specify an alternative column delimiter If no delimiter is specified, table names will be delimited by a , (comma) character.

-R  Specify a row delimiter

-I  INSERT statements (instead of CSV)

-D  Set the date format (see strftime(3) for details)

-S  Sanitize names (replace spaces etc. with underscore)

-q  Use to wrap text-like fields. Default is ".

-X  Use to escape quoted characters within a field. Default is doubling.

NOTES

HISTORY
mdb-export first appeared in MDB Tools 0.1

AUTHORS
The mdb-export utility was written by Brian Bruns

BUGS
Memo fields are allowed to contain a newline characters, the current program does nothing about this.