cookietool - program to operate cookie (fortune) database

       Upstream  author  and  Aminet  cookietool.lha  package  with AmigaOS binaries uploader is Wilhelm Noeker,
       <wnoeker@t-online.de>. Unix manpages (including this one) and makefile are  maintained  by  Miros/law  L.
       Baran <baran@debian.org>. This manual page uses many excerpts from the original README file.

                                                  May 19, 2001                                     COOKIETOOL(6)

       None known.

       This manual page documents briefly the cookietool command.

       This  manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not
       have a manual page. Instead, it has some plaintext documentation, see below.

       cookietool is a program that should be used to sort, clear  and  maintain  cookie  database  in  standard
       fortune(6)  format,  i.e.  list  of  cookies  delimited with line containing a single percent ('%') char.
       cookietool can now understand another formats and convert cookie database between them.

       cookietool - program to operate cookie (fortune) database

       A summary  of  options  is  included  below.  For  a  complete  description,  see  the  documentation  in
       /usr/share/doc/cookietool directory

       [nothing]
              Shows summary of options.

       -c     case sensitive comparisons.

       -d[0-3]
              how fussy about word delimiters? (default: 2)

       -b     delete cookies that are 'abbreviations' of another, too.

       -p     passive, don't delete anything.

       -s[l|w|<sep>|s]
              sort  cookies; looking after last line only; looking after last word only; starting after the last
              <sep>, e.g. '-s--'; by size.

       -a     treat 'abbreviations' as doubles (i.e. delete them from the database, too).

       -f[0-3]
              input file format - -f3: cookies are separated by '%%' lines; -f2: cookies are  separated  by  '%'
              lines (DEFAULT); -f1: each line is a cookie; -f0: each word is a cookie.

       -F[0-3]
              force output in a different file format, see -f.

       -o     overwrite directly without temporary file. CAUTION NEEDED.

cdbdiff(6), cdbsplit(6)

cookietool [options] <database>