Flat, sequential text files have columns of information delimited from each other with a variety of characters : 123.45.67.89 here.our.domain /etc/hosts uses a whitespace nobody:*:65534:65534::/: /etc/passwd uses a colon The -z switch can be used to specify a delimiter whenever the default delimiter of whitespace is not appropriate. In the case of the /etc/passwd file, a database declaration might look like this: Kuid text -z: -k2 -v0 /etc/passwd # map to convert user-id to login name The default is whitespace for the text type. It is a comma for the netinfo type. For the ldap type, a -z switch specifies the character to use to separate values when building the resulting string when multiple attribute values are returned. |