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

# vltsv(1)

mutual converter between TSV and Villa database

## NAME

vltsv - mutual converter between TSV and Villa database

## SYNOPSIS

**vltsv import** \[-bin\] *name*\
 **vltsv export** \[-bin\] *name*

## DESCRIPTION

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

The command **vltsv** features mutual conversion between a database of Villa and a TSV text. This command is useful when data exchange with another version of QDBM or another DBM, or when data exchange between systems which have different byte orders. This command is used in the above format. *name* specifies a database name.

The subcommand **export** reads TSV data from the standard input.  The subcommand **import** writes TSV data to the standard output.

## OPTIONS

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

- **-bin**

  treat records as Base64 format.

## EXAMPLES

For example, to make a database to search \`/etc/password' by a user name, perform the following command.\
      **cat /etc/passwd \| tr ':' ' ' \| vltsv import casket**\

Thus, to retrieve the information of a user \`mikio', perform the following command.\
      **vlmgr get casket mikio**\

## SEE ALSO

[**qdbm**(3)](/qdbm/3.md), [**vlmgr**(1)](/vlmgr/1.md), [**villa**(3)](/villa/3.md), [**vlopen**(3)](/vlopen/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).