<p>I have a set of Berkeley DB files on my Linux file system that I'd like to examine.</p>

<p>What useful tools exist for getting a quick overview of the contents? I can write Perl scripts that use BDB modules for examining them, but I'm looking for some CLI utility to be able to take a look inside without having to start writing scripts.</p>

Check out the
db-utils
package. If you use apt, you can install it with the following:
```
apt-get install db-util
```
(or
```
apt-get install db4.8-util
```
or whatever version you have or prefer.)
Additional links:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=db-utils
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&keywords=db-util&searchon=names
Man page of db4.4_dump