To add another spanner/clue to this.

I had several database files like this on a Solaris system. I discovered .db files are hash databases and .dir and .pag are dbms.

For example, on sendmail we have a aliases file called oddly enough, aliases which has the following format: 

alias:            user1
alias2:           user2, user3

[download]

To create the .pag and .dir we would use: 

#makemap dbm alias < alias

[download]

Which would result in aliase.pag and alias.dir being made from the alias text file.

For the .db files, the command was: 

#makemap hash alias < alias

[download]

Making alias.db.

However, in attempting to get info from these files, I found typing: 

#strings alias.dir

[download]
#strings aliase.pag

[download]

was a good way of just getting the ascii strings out.

Maybe you could do this, piping the output to a text file before processing in perl.

- jed

P.S: In the above the # is not to be typed, it represents the shell prompt.

In reply to Re: .pag and .dir - what db format?? by Speedfreak
in thread .pag and .dir - what db format?? by TQuid

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