jerstucki / dbf2dsv

Convert DBF to DSV

dbf2dsv

A command-line program to convert DBF files to DSV.

Installation

npm install dbf2dsv -g

Usage

Specify the target file with -o or --out

dbf2dsv --out=foo.tsv -- foo.dbf

or write to /dev/stdout (default).

dbf2dsv -- foo.dbf > foo.tsv

Specify a custom delimiter with -d or --delimiter (default is \t)

dbf2dsv --out=foo.tsv --delimiter=";" -- foo.dbf

Specify the encoding of the DBF file -e or --encoding (default is ISO-8859-1)

dbf2dsv --out=foo.tsv --encoding=utf8 -- foo.dbf

Author

Jeremy Stucki, Interactive Things

License

BSD, see LICENSE

dbf2dsv's Issues

Recursive support and multiple files

Is there a way to convert multiple dbf files at once? @herrstucki

Critical error

I am getting following error for any file

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/dbf2dsv/bin/dbf2dsv:33
  .await(function(error) { if (error) throw error; });
                                      ^

Error: ENXIO: no such device or address, read
    at Error (native)

FYI: shapefile now exports dbf2json.

This is not an issue with merely an FYI: my shapefile package no exports a dbf2json binary, which in conjunction with d3-dsv’s json2dsv you can convert to any DSV format.

Add tests

Tape looks like a good contender, since vows (what I've used before) isn't really supported anymore. d3-dsv uses it too.

• Convert of a basic DBF file
• Convert a non-UTF-8 encoded DBF