mdb-json(1)

mdb-json1

Export data in an mdb database table to json.

Usage

mdb-json [-D fmt] [-T fmt] [-U] database table

mdb-json {-h | --help}

mdb-json --version

Overview

mdb-json is a utility program distributed with MDB Tools.

It produces JSON output for the given table. Such output is suitable for parsing in a variety of languages.

Options

-D, --date-format fmt

Set the date format (see strftime(3) for details).

-T, --time-format fmt

Set the date/time format (see strftime(3) for details).

-U, --no-unprintable

Change unprintable characters to spaces (otherwise escaped as \u00XX).

--version

Print the mdbtools version and exit.

Notes

Environment

MDB_JET3_CHARSET

Defines the charset of the input JET3 (access 97) file. Default is CP1252. See iconv(1).

MDBICONV

Defines the output charset to use for the SQL file. Default is UTF-8. mdbtools must have been compiled with iconv.

MDBOPTS

Colon-separated list of options:

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debug_like

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debug_write

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debug_usage

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debug_ole

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debug_row

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debug_props

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debug_all is a shortcut for all debug_* options

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no_memo (deprecated; has no effect)

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use_index (experimental; requires libmswstr)

Releases

3 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13

--version since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

History

mdb-json first appeared in MDB Tools 0.9.

Authors

The mdb-json utility was written by Ugo Di Girolamo. It is based on mdb-export(1).

From mdbtools 1.0.1-0.1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.