GNU Database Manager

Description
gdbm represents a command line front-end for GNU dbm database files allowing users to perform almost any operation provided by the gdbm library itself.
GNU dbm is a so-called disk file format, which stores key/data-pairs in a single file. The actual data of any record being stored is referred to by an unique key. The internal structure of the file allows searching for specific entries to take much less time, than searching a text file, for example. The time it takes to retrieve the data of a specified key is close to constant (O(1)), regardless of the amount of records being stored.

Manual
Click here for the online manual.

Version
The current version is 0.2.1 patch 2.

Last modified at 2001-11-02.