[Qgis-user] editing dbf files

[Tim Michelsen]

> Try the shapelib programs:
> 
> They include dbfdump, a simple utility to extract the contents of a dbf to a text file, From here they can pretty easily be edited directly or loaded into a database such as Postgres or Mysql for updating.
> 
> see http://shapelib.maptools.org/shapelib-tools.html#dbfdump
> 
> You can then use the dbfcreate progranm to create a new dbf file to contain the edited records & the dbfadd program to iterate through your new data to load the records. 

Please check also this thread 
here:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.freegis/2193