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    <p><code class="program"><a href="../programs/httxt2dbm.html">httxt2dbm</a></code> is used to generate dbm files from text input, for
    use in <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritemap">RewriteMap</a></code> with the
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    <p>If the output file already exists, it will not be truncated. New keys will be
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    <p><code><strong>httxt2dbm</strong>
    [ -<strong>v</strong> ]
    [ -<strong>f</strong> <var>DBM_TYPE</var> ]
    -<strong>i</strong> <var>SOURCE_TXT</var>
    -<strong>o</strong> <var>OUTPUT_DBM</var>
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    <dt><code>-v</code></dt>
    <dd>More verbose output</dd>

    <dt><code>-f <var>DBM_TYPE</var></code></dt>
    <dd>Specify the DBM type to be used for the output. If not specified, will
    use the <a class="glossarylink" href="../glossary.html#apr" title="see glossary">APR</a> Default. Available types are:
    <code>GDBM</code> for GDBM files,
    <code>SDBM</code> for SDBM files,
    <code>DB</code> for berkeley DB files,
    <code>NDBM</code> for NDBM files,
    <code>default</code> for the default DBM type.
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    <dt><code>-i <var>SOURCE_TXT</var></code></dt>
    <dd>Input file from which the dbm is to be created. The file should be formatted
    with one record per line, of the form: <code>key value</code>.
    See the documentation for <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritemap">RewriteMap</a></code> for
    further details of this file's format and meaning.
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    <dt><code>-o <var>OUTPUT_DBM</var></code></dt>
    <dd>Name of the output dbm files.</dd>
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    <div class="example"><pre class="prettyprint lang-sh">httxt2dbm -i rewritemap.txt -o rewritemap.dbm
httxt2dbm -f SDBM -i rewritemap.txt -o rewritemap.dbm</pre>
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