dbverify(1)

dbverify1

Check a lifelines database

Usage

dbverify [options] file

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the dbverify command.

The dbverify program is a companion program of the Lifelines genealogy software, and is used to check an existing lifelines database for errors.

Options

-a

Perform all checks (does not include fixes)

-g

Check for ghosts (names/refns)

-G

Check for & fix ghosts (names/refns)

-i

Check individuals

-f

Check families

-F

Alter any bad family lineage pointers (to _badptr)

-h

command-line help

-s

Check sours

-e

Check events

-x

Check others

-l

Check database structure

-m

Check for records missing data entries

-M

Fix records missing data entries

-D

Fix bad delete entries

-n

Noisy (echo every record processed)

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0–13

-D since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -F since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -G since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -M since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -a since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -e since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -f since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -g since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -h since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -i since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -l since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -m since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -n since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -s since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -x since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

Author

This manual page was written by Christian Perrier <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From lifelines 3.0.61-5 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.