---
name: "cbcodec"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "qdbm-util"
version: "1.8.78-13+b3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cbcodec"
---

# cbcodec(1)

popular encoders and decoders

## NAME

cbcodec - popular encoders and decoders

## SYNOPSIS

**cbcodec url** \[-d\] \[-br\] \[-rs *base* *target*\] \[-l\] \[-e *expr*\] \[*file*\]\
 **cbcodec base** \[-d\] \[-l\] \[-c *num*\] \[-e *expr*\] \[*file*\]\
 **cbcodec quote** \[-d\] \[-l\] \[-c *num*\] \[-e *expr*\] \[*file*\]\
 **cbcodec mime** \[-d\] \[-hd\] \[-bd\] \[-part *num*\] \[-l\] \[-ec *code*\] \[-qp\] \[-dc\] \[-e *expr*\] \[*file*\]\
 **cbcodec csv** \[-d\] \[-t\] \[-l\] \[-e *expr*\] \[-html\] \[*file*\]\
 **cbcodec xml** \[-d\] \[-p\] \[-l\] \[-e *expr*\] \[-tsv\] \[*file*\]\
 **cbcodec zlib** \[-d\] \[-gz\] \[-crc\] \[*file*\]\
 **cbcodec lzo** \[-d\] \[*file*\]\
 **cbcodec bzip** \[-d\] \[*file*\]\
 **cbcodec iconv** \[-ic *code*\] \[-oc *code*\] \[-ol *ltype*\] \[-cn\] \[-wc\] \[-um\] \[*file*\]\
 **cbcodec date** \[-wf\] \[-rf\] \[-utc\] \[*str*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **cbcodec** commands.

**cbcodec** is  a tool to use encoding and decoding features provided by Cabin. This command is used in the above format. *file* specifies a input file. If it is omitted, the standard input is read.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the file:///usr/share/doc/qdbm-doc/spex.html#cabincli.

- **-d**

  perform decoding (unescaping), not encoding (escaping).

- **-br**

  break up URL into elements.

- **-rs**

  resolve relative URL.

- **-l**

  output the tailing newline.

- **-e** *expr*

  specify input data directly.

- **-c** *num*

  limit the number of columns of the encoded data.

- **-hd**

  parse MIME and extract headers in TSV format.

- **-bd**

  parse MIME and extract the body.

- **-part** *num*

  parse MIME and extract a part.

- **-ec** *code*

  specify the input encoding, which is UTF-8 by default.

- **-qp**

  use quoted-printable encoding, which is Base64 by default.

- **-dc**

  output the encoding name instead of the result string when decoding.

- **-t**

  parse CSV. Convert the data into TSV. Tab and new-line in a cell are deleted.

- **-html**

  parse CSV. Convert the data into HTML.

- **-p**

  parse XML. Show tags and text sections with dividing headers.

- **-tsv**

  parse XML. Show the result in TSV format. Characters of tabs and new-lines are URL-encoded.

- **-gz**

  use GZIP format.

- **-crc**

  output the CRC32 checksum as hexadecimal and big endian.

- **-ic** *code*

  specify the input encoding, which is detected automatically by default.

- **-oc** *code*

  specify the output encoding, which is UTF-8 by default.

- **-ol** *ltype*

  convert line feed characters, with \`unix'(LF), \`dos'(CRLF), and \`mac'(CR).

- **-cn**

  detect the input encoding and show its name.

- **-wc**

  count the number of characters of the input string of UTF-8.

- **-um**

  output mappings of UCS-2 characters and C strings of UTF-16BE and UTF-8.

- **-wf**

  output in W3CDTF format.

- **-rf**

  output in RFC 1123 format.

- **-utc**

  output the coordinate universal time.

## SEE ALSO

[**qdbm**(3)](/qdbm/3.md), [**cabin**(3)](/cabin/3.md).

## AUTHOR

QDBM was written by Mikio Hirabayashi \<mikio@fallabs.com\>.

This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI \<ukai@debian.or.jp\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).