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dss [ options ] --method=text[,option...]
The
dss text method describes newline-terminated field-delimited text file data. The method schema is a
scanf(3) style format string with embedded field names of the form
%(field
)format-char delimiter ...
Use the dss flat method for generic record-oriented flat file data.
Newline-terminated field-delimited text file; the method schema is a
scanf(3)
like format string with embedded field names of the form: %(field1)format-char delimiter ...
A separately allocated sized buffer. The external representation is a newline separated base64 mime encoding.
An integral or floating point number.
A generic pointer.
A referenced type.
A string. The format details string specifies quoting and C style character escape processing:
quote[=
char] quotes
string with
char (
") as the begin and end quote;
endquote=
char changes the
quote end to
char
;
shell[=
beg] quotes using shell conventions and
beg (
$') as the quote begin;
opt performs
quote and
shell quoting only when necessary;
escape assumes that escape processing has already been performed;
wide does not escape characters with the bit 8 set;
expand=
mask expands escaped characters according to
mask
which may be a
, or
| separated list of
all: expand all escaped chars,
char expands 7 bit
character escapes,
line expands
\r and
\n escapes,
wide expands wide character escapes,
nocr
eliminates
\r, and
nonl eliminates
\n. Matches on this type treat the pattern as a
regex(3) pattern string.
A type.
No value. May be used for padding.
Returns the result of applying the
ed(1) style substitute expression in the first
argument to the second argument.
Returns the size of the variable argument; the size of an array variable is the number of elements, otherwise the size is in
bytes.
Returns the type of the variable argument for comparison with other types.