NAME¶

mdb-tables - Get listing of tables in an MDB database

SYNOPSIS¶

mdb-tables [-S] [-1 | -d delim] [-t form|table|macro|systable|report|query|linkedtable|module|relationship|dbprop|any|all] [-T] database
mdb-tables -h|--help
mdb-tables --version

DESCRIPTION¶

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

It produces a list of tables contained within an MDB database in a format suitable for use in shell scripts.

OPTIONS¶

-S, --system

Show system tables. System tables are generally those beginning with 'MSys'.

-1, --single-column

Specifies that the tables should be listed 1 per line. This is equivalent to --delim 0

-d, --delimiter delim

Specifies an alternative delimiter. If no delimiter is specified, table names will be delimited by a tab character, or by newline if the -1 option was specified.

-t, --type type

Filters entries to show alternate types. Autorized values are form, table, macro, systable, report, query, linkedtable, module, relationship, dbprop, any, and all. Default value is table.

-T, --showtype

Display the entry type indentifier before each entry.

--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. Default is UTF-8. mdbtools must have been compiled with iconv.

MDBOPTS

Colon-separated list of options:

HISTORY¶

mdb-tables first appeared in MDB Tools 0.3.

SEE ALSO¶

mdb-array(1) mdb-count(1) mdb-export(1) mdb-header(1) mdb-hexdump(1) mdb-import(1) mdb-json(1) mdb-parsecsv(1) mdb-prop(1) mdb-queries(1) mdb-schema(1) mdb-sql(1) mdb-ver(1)

AUTHORS¶

The mdb-tables utility was written by Brian Bruns.

BUGS¶

Access allows for tables to have spaces embedded in the table name.

You must specify a delimiter (-d) if you intend on piping the output of mdb-tables to a program such as awk or cut.