---
name: "bibledit-rdwrt"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "bibledit-gtk"
version: "4.9-1+b1"
release: "Debian 9 (Stretch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bibledit-rdwrt"
---

# bibledit-rdwrt(1)

Read or writes data to or from a Bibledit-Gtk Bible or project

## NAME

**bibledit-rdwrt - Read or writes data to or from a Bibledit-Gtk Bible or project**

## DESCRIPTION

Bibledit-rdwrt can read from or write to Bible data.

Syntax: bibledit-rdwrt ‐r\|‐w project book chapter\|0 fileName

Breaking the syntax down we have:

First parameter: ‐r\|‐w  This can be either ‐r or ‐w which determines whether the remaining arguments are going to do a "read" operation  from the specified Bibledit-Gtk Bible / project, or do a "write" operation to that Bible / project.

Second parameter: project  This gives the name of the Bibledit-Gtk Bible / project.  All we have to do is ensure that the project name we want to access is a valid/existing one.

Third parameter: book This is simply the 3‐letter book code for the Bible book that is being read/written to. I.e., MAT for Matthew, GEN for Genesis, etc.

Fourth parameter: chapter\|0 This can be either a chapter number or 0 (zero) for reading/writing either an individual chapter  or reading/writing a whole book (when the parameter is 0).

Fifth parameter: fileName This is a temporary file name that we assign for our use with bibledit-rdwrt. For a read (‐r) operation this fileName argument is the name of the file that will be created by bibledit-rdwrt containing a copy of the whole book (corresponding to the 3‐letter code),  or that contains the individual chapter contents (of a designated chapter) of an existing Bibledit-Gtk book file in the Bible / project. It should be prefixed with a path us.  For a write (‐w) operation this fileName argument is the name of the temporary file that bibledit-rdwrt reads  to get the text which it then writes to the appropriate Bible / project file.  The temporary file can contain the text of a whole book, or just the text of a single chapter  for the book specified by the book 3‐letter code and the chapter (number) argument.

bibledit-rdwrt may exit with 0 on success, or ‐1 on failure, as it sees fit. It may write to stdout or stderr, as it sees fit.

## LICENSE

This program is distributed under the GNU General Public License, as noted in each source file.