Name
-x
Synopsis
The editmap program must be run with one of
three mandatory command-line switches. This -x
switch is one of those three.
The -x
command-line switch tells
editmap to open the database file in read/write
mode, to look up the key, and, if found, to delete the key and its
value from the database:
%editmap -x
dbtype dbfile sought-key
If the dbfile
lacks read/write permission,
the following error will print and editmap will
exit with an EX_IOERR (EX_IOERR) exit value.
editmap: error opening type dbtype map dbfile: Permission denied
If the sought-key
is found, it and its
value are silently deleted from the database. If the
sought-key
is not found,
editmap prints the following error and exits
with an EX_UNAVAILABLE (EX_UNAVAILABLE) exit value:
editmap: couldn't find key sought-key in map dbfile
If you get this error when reading aliases-style
database files, consider adding the -N
command-line switch.
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