mdb-tables (1)

mdb-tables [-S] [-1 | -d delimiter] database

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.

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

-1 specifies that the tables should be listed 1 per line.

-d delimiter 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.

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 semi-column separated list of options:

• use_index

• no_memo

• debug_like

• debug_write

• debug_usage

• debug_ole

• debug_row

• debug_props

• debug_all is a shortcut for all debug_* options

mdb-tables first appeared in MDB Tools 0.3.

gmdb2(1) mdb-export(1) mdb-hexdump(1) mdb-prop(1) mdb-sql(1) mdb-ver(1) mdb-array(1) mdb-header(1) mdb-parsecsv(1) mdb-schema(1)

The mdb-tables utility was written by Brian Bruns.

Access allows for tables to have spaces embeded 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.