dumpdb and loaddb are a lot trickier than they look. they allow arbitrary selection expressions (totally undocumented) and regular expression matching by attribute. for example: hussar-> dumpdb -c 'str.nam = [b.*o]' -v -h -f ~/hacks/umud/hash -o ff +> sysobj -> wizard +> 0 dumped 2 objects hussar-> the '+>' prefix is output in verbose mode to indicate the object was selected, and the '->' indicates it was not. the expression given matches for all objects with a name string that has a 'b', any characters, and an 'o'. There are more notes on loaddb/dumpdb in DOC/wizard/necronomicon.