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

# odmgr(1)

administration utility for QDBM Odeum

## NAME

odmgr - administration utility for QDBM Odeum

## SYNOPSIS

**odmgr create** *name*\
 **odmgr put** \[-uri *str*\] \[-title *str*\] \[-author *str*\] \[-date *str*\] \[-wmax *num*\] \[-keep\] *name* \[*file*\]\
 **odmgr out** \[-id\] *name* *expr*\
 **odmgr get** \[-id\] \[-t\|-h\] *name* *expr*\
 **odmgr search** \[-max *num*\] \[-or\] \[-idf\] \[-t\|-h\|-n\] *name* *words...*\
 **odmgr list** \[-t\|-h\] *name*\
 **odmgr optimize** *name*\
 **odmgr inform** *name*\
 **odmgr merge** *name elems...*\
 **odmgr remove** *name*\
 **odmgr break** \[-h\|-k\|-s\] \[*file*\]\
 **odmgr version**

## DESCRIPTION

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

**odmgr** is a utility for debugging Odeum and its applications. It features editing and checking of a database. It can be used for full-text search systems with shell scripts. This command is used in the above format. *name* specifies a database name. *file* specifies a file name, *expr* specifies the URI or the ID number of a document, *words* specifies searching words. *elems* specifies element databases.

## OPTIONS

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

- **-uri**

  specify the URI of the document explicitly.

- **-title** *str*

  specify the title of the document.

- **-author** *str*

  specify the author of the document.

- **-date** *str*

  specify the modified date of the document.

- **-wmax** *num*

  specify the max number of words to be stored.

- **-keep**

  the storing mode is not to be overwrite.

- **-id**

  specify a document not by a URI but by an ID number.

- **-t**

  output the details of a document in tab separated format.

- **-h**

  output the details of a document in human-readable format.

- **-k**

  output keywords of a document.

- **-s**

  output summary of a document.

- **-max** *num*

  specify the max number of documents of the output.

- **-or**

  perform OR search, nut AND search.

- **-idf**

  tune scores with IDF.

- **-n**

  show ID numbers and scores only.

## SEE ALSO

[**qdbm**(3)](/qdbm/3.md), [**odidx**(1)](/odidx/1.md), [**odeum**(3)](/odeum/3.md). [**odopen**(3)](/odopen/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).