Examining Berkeley DB files from the CLI

Question

I have a set of Berkeley DB files on my Linux file system that I\'d like to examine.

What useful tools exist for getting a quick overview of the contents? I can writ

Answer 1

As mentioned in the other answers, the db-utils package (db4-utils under RHEL) has some tools. However, db_dump can be unhelpful, since the output is 'bytevalue' format.

For a quick'n'dirty viewer, use python:

me@machine$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2013, 20:03:06) 
>>> import dbhash
>>> for k, v in dbhash.open( ** ).iteritems(): print k, v
...

Note that dbhash is deprecated since python 2.6.