---
name: "cdbsplit"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "cookietool"
version: "2.5-7"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cdbsplit"
---

# cdbsplit(6)

program to operate cookie (fortune) database

## NAME

cdbsplit - program to operate cookie (fortune) database

## SYNOPSIS

**cdbsplit** \[*options*\] *\<cookie-database\> \<hitfile\>*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **cdbsplit** command.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has some plain text documentation, see below.

**cdbsplit** is a program that can be used to operate cookie database in various formats, the default is standard [fortune(6)](/fortune/6.md) format, i.e. list of 'cookies' delimited with line containing a single percent ('**%**') char . With 'cdbsplit' you can split cookie database, or extract parts of it depending on various criteria.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the documentation in */usr/share/doc/cookietool* directory. **NOTE**, that default behaviour is to overwrite existing database with its reduced version, so the cookies are MOVED to hitfile. The hitfile is never overwritten, but may be appended to.

- **\[nothing\]**

  Shows summary of options.

- **-c**

  case-sensitive comparisons (for both keywords and groups)

- **-d\[0-3\]**

  how fussy about word delimiters? (default: 2)

- **-k\<keyword\>**

  optional keyword

- **-K\<keyword\>**

  mandatory keyword (use both of them to form boolean expressions)

- **-l\<min\_lines\>**

  minimal cookie length (in lines)

- **-L\<max\_lines\>**

  maximal cookie length (in lines)

- **-w\<chars\>**

  minimal line width (in chars)

- **-W\<chars\>**

  maximal line width (in chars)

- **-n\<min\_number\>**

  start at cookie \<min\_number\>

- **-N\<max\_number\>**

  stop after \<max\_number\> cookie

- **-m\<chars\>**

  find groups of cookies starting with \<n\> matching characters (database must be sorted for this to make sense!)

- **-x**

  extract only, don't modify \<cookie-database\>

- **-a**

  append, don't overwrite \<hitfile\> if such a filename exists

- **-f\[0-3\]**

  input file format - -f3: cookies are separated by '%%' lines; -f2: cookies are separated by '%' lines (DEFAULT); -f1: each line is a cookie; -f0: each word is a cookie.

## SEE ALSO

**[cookietool(6)](/cookietool/6.md)**, **[cdbdiff(6)](/cdbdiff/6.md)**

## BUGS

None known.

## AUTHOR

Upstream author and Aminet cookietool.lha package with AmigaOS binaries uploader is Wilhelm Noeker, \<wnoeker@t-online.de\>. Unix manpages (including this one) and makefile are maintained by Miros/law L. Baran \<baran@debian.org\>. This manual page uses many excerpts from the original README file.