SYNOPSIS
ged2gwb [ <ged> ] [ options ]DESCRIPTION
ged2gwb creates a starter database for use by GeneWeb , from a GEDCOM file.
The primary documentation of
ged2gwb
is in the HTML documentation, which you can find in the documentation directory (/usr/share/doc/geneweb on
Debian systems).
Please look there for complete and up-to-date documentation.
OPTIONS
- -help
- command-line help
- -o <file>
- output database (default: a.gwb)
- -f
- Remove database if already existing
- -log <file>
- Redirect log trace to this file.
- -lf
-
- Lowercase first names -
Convert first names to lowercase letters, with initials in uppercase. - -ls
-
- Lowercase surnames -
Convert surnames to lowercase letters, with initials in uppercase. Try to keep lowercase particles. - -us
-
- Uppercase surnames -
Convert surnames to uppercase letters. - -fne be
-
- First names enclosed -
When creating a person, if the GEDCOM first name part holds a part between 'b' (any character) and 'e' (any character), it is considered to be the usual first name: e.g. -fne '""' or -fne "()". - -efn
-
- Extract first names -
When creating a person, if the GEDCOM first name part holds several names, the first of this names becomes the person "first name" and the complete GEDCOM first name part a "first name alias". - -no_efn
-
- Dont extract first names - [default]
Cancels the previous option. - -epn
-
- Extract public names - [default]
When creating a person, if the GEDCOM first name part looks like a
public name, i.e. holds:
* a number or a roman number, supposed to be a number of a nobility title,
* one of the words: "der", "den", "die", "el", "le", "la", "the", supposed to be the beginning of a qualifier,
then the GEDCOM first name part becomes the person "public name" and its first word his "first name". - -no_epn
- Cancels the previous option.
- -no_pit
-
- No public if titles -
Do not consider persons having titles as public - -tnd
-
- Try negative dates -
Set negative dates when inconsistency (e.g. birth after death) - -no_nd
-
- No negative dates -
Don't interpret a year preceded by a minus sign as a negative year - -udi x-y
-
- Undefined death interval -
Set the interval for persons whose death part is undefined:
- if before x years, they are considered as alive
- if after y year, they are considered as death
- between x and y year, they are considered as "don't know"
Default x is 80 and y is 120 - -uin
-
- Untreated in notes -
Put untreated GEDCOM tags in notes - -ds
-
- Default source -
Set the source field for persons and families without source data - -dates_dm
- Interpret months-numbered dates as day/month/year
- -dates_md
- Interpret months-numbered dates as month/day/year
- -charset [ANSEL|ASCII|MSDOS]
-
- charset decoding -
Force given charset decoding, overriding the possible setting in GEDCOM