NAME

       lexholder-en - lexical database holding utility

SYNOPSIS

       lexholder-en [options] <db_path>

DESCRIPTION

       lexholder-en is a small utility intended for use from the command line or shell-scripts. It allows one to
       construct, test, manage and query lexical database as well as extract it's content in textual form.

       This  database  is  primarily  intended for use along with the freephone phonetizer for mbrola to provide
       pronunciation information for English words.

       When filling and updating the database, new records are read from the standard  input.   When  extracting
       data  from  the database, The result is printed to the standard output.  This behaviour can be changed by
       the -f switch.

OPTIONS

       When no options are specified, the program reads it's standard input  and  stores  it's  content  in  the
       database.

       All options recognized in the command line are described below.

       -h
              Print  summary of options and exit. This option discards all other command line specifications. It
              is the only case when the database path is not required.

       -l
              List database content in textual form.

       -s <word>
              Search specified word in the lexical database. If the word is found program exits successfully and
              outputs it's pronunciation string,
               otherwise prints nothing and exits with non-zero exit code.

       -d <word>
              Delete record for specified word.

       -f <file>
              Use specified file instead of standard input or output.

       -r
              Replace mode. This mode causes that the new records replace existing ones with the  same  key.  By
              default such records are ignored.

       -q
              Be  more  quiet than usual: don't print warnings about ignoring duplicate records when filling the
              database.

SEE ALSO

       freephone(1), mbrola(1).

AUTHOR

       Igor B. Poretsky <poretsky@mlbox.ru>

                                                January 23, 2010                                 LEXHOLDER-EN(1)