Comments on: Extracting data from MS Access files on MacOS X

Comments on: Extracting data from MS Access files on MacOS X http://www.rahji.com/wordpress/2007/04/11/extracting-data-from-ms-access-files-on-macos-x/ art & technology Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:58:04 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: rob duarte http://www.rahji.com/wordpress/2007/04/11/extracting-data-from-ms-access-files-on-macos-x/comment-page-1/#comment-3132 rob duarte Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:10:02 +0000 http://www.rahji.com/wordpress/2007/04/11/extracting-data-from-ms-access-files-on-macos-x/#comment-3132 To get descriptions of all of the tables in an MDB, try this from a bash prompt: for f in `mdb-tables -1 MY.MDB`; do echo; echo -n $f; echo describe table "$f" | mdb-sql MY.MDB ; done To get descriptions of all of the tables in an MDB, try this from a bash prompt:

for f in `mdb-tables -1 MY.MDB`; do
echo; echo -n $f;
echo describe table “$f” | mdb-sql MY.MDB ;
done

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