The editmap program must be run with one of
three mandatory command-line switches. This -q
switch is one of those three.
The -q command-line switch tells
editmap to open the database file in read-only
mode, and look up and print the value of the key:
% editmap -q dbtype dbfile sought-key
If the dbfile lacks read 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, its value is
printed and editmap exits with a zero exit
value. 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.
